I've got a 90 EX Sedan and I was trying to replace my rear wheel bearing and had the brake drum cover and wheel bearing cap off but had major trouble getting the spindle nut off last night so I rolled it out of my garage (only half the car fits) So I went to roll it back in today and when I hit the brakes it pulled 1 side out of the wheel cylinder! Apparently from not putting the drum cover back on It was leaking fluid pretty bad so I pulled the line and plugged it but the fluid level got damn low. I cant get to the cylinder without getting the spindle nut off which is apparently going to need an impact. So does anybody know if its possible to simply push the piston back into the cylinder? I cant do it manually and I'm not sure if I want to take a c-clamp and try and press it back in. Any help is much appreciated!

 

When I was bleding my brakes, I was dumb and forgot to put the drum back on my rear left brake. I did the same thing; it peed out fluid everywhere. See if you can use a c clamp and push it back in, that's what I did.

 

c clamp should work

 

Well I went back out there and managed to get it back in and went to go put the cover back on and no go, after about 15 min of lookin through the diagrams in my helms I noticed the lil clevis bar had popped out so I snapped it back in and viola, refilled the brake fluid container and all's good. I was jus worried about possibly messing up the boot, thanks!

 

If you have brake fluid on those shoes now would be a good time to replace them.

 

Nah, the fluid didnt squirt out it jus dribbled down the spring, down the inside of the shoe and off of the return spring, I took my dremel to the tip at the bottom just in case and did an all around cleaing with brake cleaner, also went ahead and did the same cleanup deal on the other side, pads got some life left in em.