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Usually when I need to do brakes and my calipers are shot I order some remanufactured calipers. However, recently when I was doing some research on doing the brakes on my daily driver I came across information about rebuilding the calipers yourself.
It didn’t look very difficult- from what I gather the caliper consists of 2 rubber seals and a piston. To remove your old piston you remove the brake pads and pump your brakes a few times and your piston will pop out. Once that is out you clean up the outside, pull off the two seals and install the new ones. One seal fits inside the caliper almost like an “o-ring”. Then you slide the old or a new piston back in and install the outside seal.
If you require new bleeders they can be bought as well. It sounds pretty simple, but wanted to know if anyone here has any experience doing this?
The cost to do this is substantially cheaper. When I priced it out for my daily driver a new piston was like $10 at Rockauto and the seals were like $4.
It didn’t look very difficult- from what I gather the caliper consists of 2 rubber seals and a piston. To remove your old piston you remove the brake pads and pump your brakes a few times and your piston will pop out. Once that is out you clean up the outside, pull off the two seals and install the new ones. One seal fits inside the caliper almost like an “o-ring”. Then you slide the old or a new piston back in and install the outside seal.
If you require new bleeders they can be bought as well. It sounds pretty simple, but wanted to know if anyone here has any experience doing this?
The cost to do this is substantially cheaper. When I priced it out for my daily driver a new piston was like $10 at Rockauto and the seals were like $4.
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