Could have let guck build up around the piston. could do as suggested and gently let the piston out and pull the gater bach and have a look. If your having problems with doing the pads maybe take it to a garage as you dont want mess round with brakes if not confident on what your doing.

Yeah agreed but I need to learn to do it,I'm almost there, just need to get the pistons back in :)
 
Joe's just said it works fine on his, so i'm sure it will be fine.

It will work on 2 pot calipers but not on 4 pot Disco2 front calipers because pushing in 1 pair of pistons will tend to push the other pair outwards, unless you can fit 2 of these tools in the caliper. Other than that some sort of lever is required.
 
To be honest lads, a big screw driver is usually enough to crack the first bit so you can remove the caliper and/or get the pads over the lip in the edge of the disc, then big water pump pliers do the rest, failing that a big G clamp

i like to work on each piston, get em all moving each other in and out to make sure theyre free, then start pushing them all the way in

use blocks of wood or use new pads to hold the pistons from popping out until youve got all 4 pistons in then fit them back onto the hub.

key thing is to make sure they are clean and square in the hole too.

it's really not difficult once you understand the principles.

cheers :)
 
Well, I took delivery of my piston compressor and it work a treat, still quite tough though, but managed well :) Rears next :-/
 

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