OK, i have the damn thing lubed to all hell with brake fluid and yet i can not get the piston to slide past the inner bore ring/gasket - it's pissin me off...i even tried the pad spreader tool that discount sells to compress the piston when you are doing your normal brake pad replacement and it wouldn't budge it...i'm going to go out and get a c=clamp tonight but should it really be this sdifficult? according the the haynes manual "you just carefully push it down to the bottom of the bore" my a$$!
any advice from my jbo peeps?
Thanks in advance - Donnie
Stock front caliper?
Did you take the cap off the fluid reservoir?
if its putting up that much of a fight its probobally time for a new caliper
the cap being on may but up some resistance but it will not keep the piston going in
new caliper time. come on their only like $15 at advanced with a core charge.
cheap insurance.
NightmaresCavy wrote:new caliper time. come on their only like $15 at advanced with a core charge. cheap insurance.
exactly. calipers are stupid cheap for our cars.
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Darkstars wrote:the cap being on may but up some resistance but it will not keep the piston going in
It will if the reservoir has been overfilled.
no if wont, then you'd just see fluid leaking out the top of the bottle
Maybe with enough force, but it won't be easy.
push fluid back hard enough to overflow past the cap won't noticably change the effect needed to push in the piston when your using a pad spreader or big challel locks to push the piston. You won't notice a differnce untill you hear fluid hitting the ground and you look over and see a big puddle. The cap won't affect anything.
try putting the seal in correctly
Is this even on the car? If its not, its the seal keeping it, and if you've been trying that hard, you've probably already ruined the seal anyways. I would just buy a new caliper and turn that one in for core. Much easier than pissing around putting it back together.
