Good memory, Chris! Yes, most of the time I use a shelf bracket that is just barely smaller than the width of the grooves in the piston. It's a 90 degree piece of metal that gives you enough leverage to spin that little bastard piston back in.

I also have one of those cube style tools and that works OK, too. When I first started using it, I used it with a extender on the socket driver. Bad mistake. It made it very difficult to keep the tool in the grooves and I stopped using it. Then some time later I tried the tool again and didn't use an extender and I really like it, especially after it really gets loose, you just keep spinning it back it.

Either way works...and Rylan, spending any more than 10 dollars on a tool to do this job is waste of cash! You could do like Chris and use a screwdriver, a shelf bracket (can't be more than 3-4 dollars) or the cube tool, which I think I paid 7.99 for.

 

I just did my brakes this weekend and a screw driver works great, that after realizing that a clamp wouldn't work like on the fronts and that the rears were screw in....where is my Helm manual!!