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Old 03-27-2022, 06:32 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by humfrz View Post
Back-in-the-day, when shops did a complete brake job they used to replace the calipers with remanufactured (rebuilt) calipers.

Except Bubba's shop and he would just soak the old calipers in kerosene and give them a healthy rap with a BFH -
Back, back, back in the day, we had drum brakes (aka press and pray). Always needed a BFH to get the drums off and some funky spring tools to get the shoes off. Wheel cylinders always leaked. And forget about actually stopping if they got wet.
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