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Originally Posted by bkreigsr
what's up in #1? did you have to grind off a frozen bolt head to separate the caliper halves? Do you have to break open the calipers every time you replace the pads? (doubtful for a car built for endurance racing?)
consider yourself lucky that your garage was warm enough to work in without gor-tex mittens and three layers of windbreakers (NJ=6 deg) Bill K
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That's the handbrake caliper, and yes, you need to split it in order to get the rotor off. Normally, a pretty straightforward job, except for when the cap screw rounds off. I found that these bolts seemed unusually soft - this one was very easy to cut through.
-Wayne