frozen caliper...need help

[camnj99]

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

[hockeyman]

Re: frozen caliper...need help

Rebuilding it should fix it. I'm not sure who sells a rebuild kit though.

[slow6]

Re: frozen caliper...need help

do you really mean frozen? as in ice?
or locked up?

[jmmullin]

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 all

[BLLDOGG]

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.

[camnj99]

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...

[BLLDOGG]

Re: frozen caliper...need help

the bore is what the piston is in.

[camnj99]

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 that

[BLLDOGG]

Re: frozen caliper...need help

like i said, read your repair manual. brake caliper overhaul. self education is the best education.