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so i changed my brakes today and wen i took the car out to brake them in i noticed one of the brakes was sticking bad so i got home checked them out and the front passanger side caliper seems to be frozen about half way u can tell just by looking at it...any idea what to do aside from replacing the whole caliper
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Re: frozen caliper...need help
Rebuilding it should fix it. I'm not sure who sells a rebuild kit though.sigpic -
Re: frozen caliper...need help
do you really mean frozen? as in ice?
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Re: frozen caliper...need help
i changed my brakes one day and my front passenger one was grabbing at a specific spot each time the rotor came around, so i took it to a couple of places and they said it had frozen somehow and would need to be replaced. i took it back to my house and took the brakes apart again and pushed the pistons in with a C-clamp and reinstalled everything, works fine now. I don't know what was wrong initially, just try to do that and see what happens; it would be kind of expensive to replace a whole caliper, probably at least 100 by the end of it allComment
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Re: frozen caliper...need help
try taking it apart and cleaning the bore of dirt and rust. lube up and re assemble. read your repair manual to do it.Comment
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Re: frozen caliper...need help
wut is the bore? sorry i dont know all these terms! i took it all apart today...took the rotor off and the pads out and sprayed some wd40 around the sides of the pistons and it worked good for about 2 minutes then the same...Comment
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Re: frozen caliper...need help
how do i get to that with out taking the piston out and if i have to take the piston out how do i do thatComment
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Re: frozen caliper...need help
like i said, read your repair manual. brake caliper overhaul. self education is the best education.Comment
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