[s2per]

I had to pull the 911 out of the garage to fix my daughter's '00 Jetta rear brakes. Did the front brakes recently--easy job, cheap parts, no problems. She said it was making a scraping noise from the rear and a drive the other day confirmed it.

I bought new rear rotors and pads, pulled off the left caliper and OOPS, forgot about the parking brake! Oh well, shouldn't be a problem, just push that piston back in....and.....HMMM?

HOW do you retract the piston on these things???!! I eventually took the whole caliper off and took it apart. I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll need at least one rebuilt caliper, but I CANNOT figure how to push that piston back in. There's a central adjustment screw for the parking brake that runs through the piston and I was able to screw the pad side of the piston back in while applying pressure from a standard piston pushing tool, but without the outer seal around it--not the right way, I'm sure.

Anybody ever work on one of these? Thanks for listening--I'll stick to air-cooled technology from now on.