Stuck puck in caliper

Just tore apart another Lockheed caliper for rebuild and as usual it was a pain. Par for the course (come back to that later) a little push with the air compressor and the puck on the feed side popped right out leaving the transfer port exposed and the opposite side not moving. Seeing the velocity they come out with, I didn't want my fingers anywhere near there. Ended up jamming a plastic golf tee in the hole and holding it with a screw driver. It sealed it well enough that I was able to pop the other side out. Just a couple of other tips. Secure the caliper in a vise. Use plenty of your favorite spray penetrating oil. Squirt it into the feed hole and around the puck on the outside. The other thing is patience, if its moving at all its eventually going to free itself.
I don't even golf but I keep some plastic tee's around. They are good for temporarly plugging hoses, oil holes ect to keep crud out.

Nodding your golfball tee plug did the job w/o blood sweat and tears. If not rusted too bad in bore I've gotten puck out with a stack of supermagnets stuck on to give it some mass inertia for the good ole slam bam thankyou mam method or if rusted puck unlikely to be used again a drill press hole then tread tap die that the drill press can pull out [not spining] on lifting bit up by the drill press lever. On Peel I drilled back side of caliper with a set screw plug to drift out w/o resort to power tools or sports accessories.

You forgot HEAT.... best medicine for the caliper.

Yep but heat alone to oil vaporizing temps did not work on pre-peel caliper so needed frying pan temps plus dry ice applied to cap and body slams on lever to get open to access rusted trapped pucks. If i'd known what I do now I'd of put nitric acid inside caliper and on puck seams till rust turned to a mushy lube to bump right out.

htown16 said:

....I don't even golf but I keep some plastic tee's around. They are good for temporarly plugging hoses, oil holes ect to keep crud out.

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Thanks for that, I'd forogtten about golf tee's. I have used old wooden ones in the past for plugging lines, but will get a few new plastic ones.