HELP!!! Brakes

[mudduck]

How the hell do you push the piston back into the calipar? I have been trying to do this for 2 hrs now with no progress. Help!!!

[Pictzie]

If you are talking about the front, you have to screw it back in. There is a "special" tool for that, or if you are brave, you can use needle nose pliers(just don't yell at me when they slip and........."

 

On the rear, I don't know, I haven't put the rear disks on my wagon yet.....

 

 

Don

'92 Loyal 2wd

'93 Loyal 4wd

[hooziewhatsit]

I've had the most luck by taking the calipers completely out of the car. This gives you (much) less backpressure on the brake fluid, and gives you a better angle to wrench from. If you don't remove the calipers, undo the bleeder valve - this will make it easier to screw in.

 

In the past I've done it with a large open-ended wrench, half a turn at a time.

 

My latest brake job included removing the calipers and using the special tool on a drill. Took about 3 seconds per caliper to reset the pistons :-)

 

good luck, don't get too angry at it

 

 

edit: for rear disk brakes (if you have them) all you do is push them back in with a C-clamp or similar. Again, this is easier if you unhook the brake line to the MC. If you don't unhook the brakeline to the MC or release the bleeder valve, make sure you don't overflow the MC with the new fluid.

[mudduck]

I got it fixed. Didn't know you had to screw the pistin back into the caliper. Used needle nose plires. Car now stops alot better now with new rotors and pads than with warped rotors and pads that were done 1000's of miles ago. Time for a beer.

[CHIM]

For the front i use an adjustable pin wrench, makes this job a piece of cake, My back calipers are in exelent shape and only require a push with my thumbs to compress, Never had to open the bleeder's.