The front went very smoothly. The manual said to use compressed air to pop the piston out, but that wasn't happening. As mentioned in the tutorial on Basscliff's site, a couple of pry things worked just fine. using one on each side of the pistons (couldn't take pics and hold two levers). I has some scrap wood paneling that I could stack up to get better leverage as needed. A very fiddly process, but effective.
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No wonder they were sticking. Look at the jelly underneath! In all, the pistons are in real good shape though.
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I guess I over torqued the bleed nipples a few years ago when I bled the system. Maybe the bit of brake fluid on the threads made it easy to over do it or some corrosion formed making them stick, in any case I certainly didn't want to chance breaking anything. I used a torch carefully heating up the end of the nipple and worked them back and forth in between shots of WD-40. They gave up without snapping. Yay!
The WD-40 really loosened up the crud on the rubber bits and the calipers too. I still scrubbed quite a bit, followed by blasting all the tiny holes out with compressed air. Everything cleaned up nicely so I decided to reuse the seals and boots. I went over the pistons with some 1500 grit sandpaper too.
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Back together now. Looking and operating much better.
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The rear caliper did not go as smoothly
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