rear brakes sprinter 52 plate

i am doing the rear pads on my brothers sprinter today has anybody got any advise or tips that will help as never done them on a sprinter before ie handbrake or is there a special way of retracting the piston etc etc cheers.

You don't say what year...

I made some notes about my 2004 T1N.

Go to this thread. Post #116 and #118 may give you some info.

https://sprinter-source.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4827

You can also do a search from the blue bar above for insight from other people. vic

hitcho said:

i am doing the rear pads on my brothers sprinter today has anybody got any advise or tips that will help as never done them on a sprinter before ie handbrake or is there a special way of retracting the piston etc etc cheers.

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Piston drives right in with a c clamp or similar. Thoroughly clean the inner parking brake drum surface on the rotor. Use napalm if you can find some Seriously, the parking brake will be funky for a while otherwise. The rest is what you'd expect.