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Originally posted by Sweeper
Sounds like a siezed up caliper. Very common. What type of car are you working on?
Pretty easy to do. If you cannot get the piston to go back in, replace it with a new caliper. Bleed the caliper and you are good to go. |
There's a few roads including this one which is the best/easiest. You should be able to return the pads if you have already purchased them and not used any portion. You can then buy a set of "stacked calipers", these are pads and calipers already set to go on your car with really no additional cost opposed to buying a pair of calipers and pads.
Unless you'de want to buy just one caliper ?????
Other than that it gets kinda ghetto with using C-clamps or, an old favorite, tape a hunk of wood oposite the piston (to protect it after 'launch') and toss the works in a sturdy plasic bag, start car, apply brakes. 99.99% of the time that'll pop a frozen piston loose but its messy and kinda shady. You would still want to buy a caliper rebuilding kit to replace the pistons rubber o-ring.
In fact with that C-clamp methode you dont really do anything but take a chance on more damadge or your saftey, you dont inspect or replace the O-ring, the piston or it's cylinder which could be damaged. Myself, I think making sure your car stops is even more important than making it start, after years of supposed evolution the Flintstone methode of stopping is near impossible without inflicting personal damadge.
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