Rear calipers - seized?

[bobster]

I inspected my RR caliber to find out why it's tight and discovered that the 4mm allen key caliper piston adjustment will not turn (there was evidence of water and corrosion). New calipers are needed I guess.

Rockauto sells rebuilt Cardone for $73 + $70 core without mounting bracket or $82 with mounting bracket... which one works?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[THE Phen]

Welcome to the club. Mine has done the same.

I actually ordered mine from ***************, a member on here. His price is a little higher than that, but I'd rather give business to a fellow enthusiast than a company that I don't know.

 

[Don Juan]

Wow me to! But it was just the right rear. I beat the thing until it came apart, then was able to clean and put back together, thank god.

 

[ghettoracingkid]

I got mine from autozone. didnt remember what i paid and it was the right rear.

 

[newprot5fan]

I just replaced my right rear caliper and bracket. It was seized open, we got it workign again but it was not working properly so I replaced it with one from Napa (the only parts store around here)...Works fine now.

 

[bobster]

What is the bracket for? Is there a need to buy the caliper with a bracket or can you reuse the one on the old caliper?

 

[ghettoracingkid]

you can reuse the old one but you have to get the caliper off of it which might involve taking the braket off and twisting it to get it loose.

there is no real difference other then price

 

[curls]

Has anyone ever dealt with a seized slider bolt (the first long bolt you must remove in order to flip the caliper up to change rear pads)?? Both left and right rear slider bolts are seized and now have mostly stripped heads due to a very akward attack angle because of the placement of the brake line.

Will I need to get this to a shop and have them cut the bolt out and replace it, or, will the entire caliper need to be replaced?

 

[P-Funk!]

Yes, and yes. (sorry)

 

[ghettoracingkid]

curls

sicne your replacing it and disconnecting the line anyway

take it off at the bracket. 14mm if im nto mistaken.

From that point you should beable to use vice grips or jsut replace the whole thing.

 

[curls]

I wasn't planning on disconnecting the line (how is this done w/o making a mess with brake fluid, anyhow?). I was planning on just flipping the caliper up, lubing the backing plates and slider pins, and putting it back together. Normally a 10-minute job.

Since I now need to get a rounded bolt extractor socket, I might have to remove the entire caliper and either replace the pin/bolt ($7 each) or get a whole new caliper ($way more).

Or I can leave it as-is since I didn't feel any brake drag at all anyhow, and have my sister bring it to a shop on her own time and get the pins replaced. I really don't have more than a few hours to do any more work on this car before it's shipped to her on the truck next Tuesday. W/ the long weekend and my camping trip this weekend, I might say that I'm done w/ this car for now and give it to her as it stands right now, which isn't too bad, since it drives, has a new timing belt and accessory belts, new swaybar endlinks, new front brakes, etc...

 

[ghettoracingkid]

ohh I thoughtyou were replacing the caliper.

use a 1/4 drive 10 mm socket and you shoudl beable to get enough on it.

or if you want to be careful. leave the line connected undo the bracket and you can get to the pad or try to undo the pins from a better angle.

I would try to repalce the pins. and hit them up with some PB Blaster or WD-40

 

[curls]

ohh I thoughtyou were replacing the caliper.

use a 1/4 drive 10 mm socket and you shoudl beable to get enough on it.

or if you want to be careful. leave the line connected undo the bracket and you can get to the pad or try to undo the pins from a better angle.

I would try to repalce the pins. and hit them up with some PB Blaster or WD-40

Well the pins are rounded to heck because the heads were corroded and as such, soft. Even my 3/8" 6-point 10mm socket sounded them off; they were very soft. So no normal socket or wrench will be getting them off at this point. I'll have to use an extractor socket that digs in the more you turn. I did hit them up with Deep Creep (like liquid wrench) but it didn't help at the time, obviously.

I might tackle this this afternoon if I can locate an extractor socket by then.

 

[90210brandon]

Damn seized cali's. I got em too now!

What to do, what to do? Is there any regular maintenance you guys can suggest?

 

[aslinsibel]

RR caliber look very smart and nice to ride it .While using the this people can increase the speed due to there convince and it is mostly used for the races.
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[pr5owner]

autovalue in calgary has refurb calipers
just change them out yourself and return the core. its about $70 bux i think?