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disk brake piston removal tool

enki

enki

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Location
Fresno
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ZX6R
Name
Jim
Anybody know where I can get one. Compressed air no worky.
 
As far as I know, compressed air is the only tool. I've never heard of another. Why isn't compressed air working?
 
You can find this cheap easy to use tool here: http://kwickstand.net/Hyper-Formance.com/ELS_Originals.html

Below is the discription copied from his website:
KWICK-Kal Brake Caliper Piston Pliers

Ever try to get caliper pistons out when trying to rebuild your calipers?

Ever get the first one out, with brake fluid all over the place, and realize it's firmly implanted in your forehead and that you need to call 911?? It really can be hazardous.

After the hospital stitches you back together, you realize you have eleven pistons still stuck in your caliper halves....

Removing the pistons from the outside with normal pliers will result in burrs around the outside that will ruin your brand new seal kit.

Well KWICK-Kal is the solution:

Internal-Expanding ADJUSTABLE Caliper Piston Pliers!

That's right! Never fight those $%#@&* caliper pistons again!

Save yourself hours of time and mess! Once you have your halves separated, you can remove a complete set of 12 ZRX caliper pistons in under ten minutes with these pliers...true story...

These pliers are based on a reverse ViceGrip-style plier, and expand rather than contract. Precision machined (right... ) to fit the ZRX calipers and most other calipers. The ZRX pistons are quite small, so these pliers will fit just about any caliper. If you have a large piston, like in a car caliper, you can make a shim out of sprinkler tubing to adapt them to almost anything.

Priced at $35.00 for a pair of KWICK-Kal Caliper Pliers

Comment: Originally Posted by h2o tech

"I'm not a “eingineer”, but I was a MAC Tool distributor once for a decade. You will never find a product like this on a tool truck anywhere. I gotta have one of those grips. Nice innovative product as always!"

-ebd :thumbup
 
Once you blow out the first piston, the air goes through that gap and doesn't to other pistons?
 
enki said:
Once you blow out the first piston, the air goes through that gap and doesn't to other pistons?
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Put the piston you blew out back into the caliper. Wrap the caliper and piston in rags, hold the loose piston (the one you just popped out) in place using your hand, and blow out the other piston.

Ideally, you should try to blow them *most* of the way out of the caliper. Then you can pop them out relatively easy using a small blast of air, or possibly even by hand.
 
Burning1 said:
Put the piston you blew out back into the caliper. Wrap the caliper and piston in rags, hold the loose piston (the one you just popped out) in place using your hand, and blow out the other piston.

Ideally, you should try to blow them *most* of the way out of the caliper. Then you can pop them out relatively easy using a small blast of air, or possibly even by hand.
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As in above ad, easy using air to pop one into your head!!! Be careful man!


-ebd
 
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I have always used air and worked fine for me. You must use common sense also.
 
enki said:
Hey thanks Dave. For $35, I all in for that!
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Cool. Tell Pete "DaddyDave" sent you (my name on the ZRX site.)

He makes all kinds of weird stuff for the ZRX's & other bikes. He's is a titainium junkie. Got his 500+lb. ZRX down to something like 380lbs. (mags/etc.) His stuff is generally on the slightly expensive side, but for much of it no one else makes it. That makes purchasing his stuff easy...:teeth
 
Hooli said:
Why not try the local gas station air hose? Worked for me.
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Funny. What finally got me to buy a compressor is the time I drove for 3/4 of an hour trying to find a gas station that had a working compressor to air up my tires.
 
Yeah. Doing the pistons was the reason I bought a compressor myself. I was lucky enough that the local hardware store had one, and was willing to help me with the calipers.

I also found out that your average can of 'Dust-off' produces enough pressure to get exactly 1 of the pistons out.
 
Funny. nobody suggested to simply re connect it too the
master and pump it out. with its own fluid...........
 
buellistic said:
Funny. nobody suggested to simply re connect it too the
master and pump it out. with its own fluid...........
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There's a reason no-one suggested that. :teeth

(You run into the same problems you would using compressed air, but with much more brake fluid.)
 
Hooli said:
And then end up with fluid all over the place when you inadvertently pump it out too far...
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You never heard of a bucket?
air sprays fluid everywhere. 1 drop will eat your paint.....
 
Burning1 said:
There's a reason no-one suggested that. :teeth

(You run into the same problems you would using compressed air, but with much more brake fluid.)
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Not if you use a limiting spacer so all the pistons come out Even..............
 
buellistic said:
You never heard of a bucket?
air sprays fluid everywhere. 1 drop will eat your paint.....
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I guess all the mechanics I've known over the years, have been doing it wrong. :dunno

Using compressed air in the first place would avoid the need for a bucket. :rofl
 
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