Rear Brake Caliper Removal, This should be so simple... Options

[zoomCat]

Hi everybody! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wavey.gif)

I'm in the process of trying to resurrect my Sleeping Beauty from her slumber. She's been asleep for a few years. I've changed out the oil and gas and got her started; ran like crap but I figured I'd have to rebuild the carbs anyway.

I'm now trying to get the rear brake calipers off but I'm having some difficulty. This is kinda embarassing, since 1) all the descriptions I've found make it sound pretty simple, and 2) I've done it before.

So I start by taking my 11mm flare wrench and go to remove the brake line from the caliper and I can't get the wrench onto the flare nut. Huh? Aft of the hard line the control arm is in the way, and forward of the line is a boss on the caliper itself as shown below (i hope).

It would seem that I have to split the hard line from the flexible line at the control arm pivot. It that correct?

Oh, and this is a factory /6, does that matter?

(i was going to post some pictures of her when i get her out of the garage and cleaned up a bit, but i thought i'd get some brakes working first....)

[zoomCat]

I'm not entirely sure what the caliper in question actually is.

The car came with non-stock calipers from the PO, some 911 front setup with a vented disk but no parking brake. They started to stick, and I got a used pair from a vendor in the early/mid 90's that looked good, but had single bleeders only on the bottom. Volvo? Ferrari? Don't know. I might look into tapping another bleeder hole in them and using them in Some Future Project.

I then found a used set of what were purported to be actual /6 calipers that had been widened, and that's what I'm looking to put onto this car. Hopefully, I'll get vented rotors and a parking brake. This car has a 2.7 in it, so vented rotors are probably a good idea.

Looking at the purported /6 calipers I have they appear to have the same boss that's my problem above, and they were shipped to me with the hardlines still attached. I guess they come out by splitting them at the union with the flex line.

My confusion comes from the various threads and tech articles that say pretty consistently to remove the hard line from the caliper first before removing the caliper from the control arm. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif) I guess my concern then is that I still don't have 914 calipers, either /4 or /6.

The good news is that the brake line broke free at the union without any struggle. Now I just gotta go buy a couple of quarts of brake fluid, suddenly realizing I don't have enough in house to handle this.

So, I guess the question I have now if I've got one or two pairs of calipers that won't work?

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