opiegb Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Hello everybody I recently bought a 94 subaru loyale as a second car and i'm unfamiler with subarus. anyway I thought would spend an hour putting new pads on the car and ran into a problem on the front pads I can't compress the piston and can't get the caliper back on with new pads . so I was hoping someone could help me with this I feel like a moron I've changed brake pads on all my other vehicles multiple times and never ran into this problem. thanks for your time if you happen to respond:-\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbone Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Dont fret, this has happened to almost all of us when we did our first brake job. The front calipers need to turned in, clockwise. You can get a cheap tool at a parts store, its a square job that fits on a couple of different make cars. Or you can spend around $50 and get a real fancy tool to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthWet Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 Many/most calipers that incorporate a parking brake require the piston to be screwed in, as Turbone described. Another thing to remember is once it is screwed in far enough, to align the v-groove of the piston so that the inner pad's pin fits into it. If you don't horrible and embarrassing things will happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subaru_dude Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 wait a sec... that only applies to the loyale's and not the gl's, right?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSubaruJunkie Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 All EA subarus need to be turned in. You can buy the tool, or do what I did and make one out of an unwanted socket. Wear gloves unless you like bloody knuckles. And maybe some penetrating lubricant. -Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeshoup Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 wait a sec... that only applies to the loyale's and not the gl's, right?? Applies to ALL Subarus with front parking brakes: IE: GLs, DLs, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subaru_dude Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 ok... nvm, i remembed doing my rears and thought i was remembering doing my fronts. i was about to freak out, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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