I had the calipers ceramic coated and am putting them back together. After several hours I was finally able to get the dust covers on the rears (total of 2 pistons). There must be some secrets to doing this that I can't figure out. The covers on the front are different and use a metal ring inside the rubber dust cover.


Has anyone ever done this? What order did you put it together? Without some special tool, it seems impossible to press the cover with ring into the groove it is supposed to go into. See below. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Update - spent basically all day on this and no progress except knowing what does not work and that no one at AutoZone has any idea either!

 

Figured it out with the help of Andy at Avec service. The diagram shows the dust cover extending over (to the outside) the piston cylinder instead of inside it. Seems so obvious now...[there is some artistic liberty here and piston seal not shown]

 

Makes sense to me in that picture! Good work doing your own rebuild vs paying for someone else to do it. Can be a learning curve, but rewarding to say you did that.