Rust

So who won the drag race between the Honda civic and the Subie wagon?

GL = Grand Luxury DL = Deleted Luxury

You do know that you are supposed to grease those right? Brake and Caliper grease is your friend. (very true statement) I recycle a lot of parts, I usually clean up the but ends of the pads on the grinding wheel and smear ant-seize compound on them and the rails. I can't tell you how many front brake calipers I have taken apart and %75 of them the pads are frozen in the rails. And it is because of the clips, and the sensor tabs on the pads. I think if the designers had put the sensor tabs on the top or bottom of the pads the would not bind up in the rails, and when they do make contact w/ the disc the would not gouge up the pad contact area.

Made it back without ruining the disc, swapped out the caliper, problem solved. So what purpose do these pad clips serve, seems like they are supposed to hold the pads in place. Theses clips along w/ the sensor tabs on the pads just seem to bind up the pads over time.

Good news bushings are fine, Bad news caliper piston is stuck. Hopefuly the pad will hold until I get home.

Going to assess the situation on my lunch break. Hopefuly the top bushing isn't seized. The bottom ones usually rust up first.

Still more hot snow plow action, the plywood special.

More snow plow action, see what happens at the end.

My front drivers side brake caliper is seizing up, made it to work...but I doubt it will make it back. I have limmitted tools in the car. I'm thinking the bushings are crapped up. Can I just remove them and bolt the caliper back on just to get home. Any other Macgyver ideas out there. Here is the part I'm talking about.