April 13, 200719 yr 1990 Loyale I am not home, but my dad and my son were trying to remove the front calipers...but couldn't figure out how to......? Is there some sort of trick to taking them off?
April 13, 200719 yr Remove the lower slide bolt, rotate up, and slide inward off the upper slide pin...... make sure they don't have the parking brake set - it's on the front wheels. GD
April 13, 200719 yr caliper doesn't need to be removed to replace the pads. if you do need to remove the caliper, there are two bolts holding the caliper bracket to the back of the hub. remove those two bolts (17 mm on the XT6 and i think the same on the EA82) and the caliper assembly comes off.
April 13, 200719 yr The lower slide bolt is a 12mm head. The caliper mounting bolts are 17mm head. The you need to TURN the caliper piston back in to reset it for new pads.
April 14, 200719 yr Author Well...you tell me....it "seems" like the caliper is sticking or "grabs" when you step on the brake pedal. I mean from what they said...it grabbed so hard it almost spun the car around on our dirt road.
April 14, 200719 yr They may want to look at the opposite side for the problem. But it sounds like a complete cleaning, bleeding, and re-greasing is in order.
April 14, 200719 yr Sounds to me like the caliper is locked up. Do you smell brake pads burning (or even better, see smoke coming from the wheel) while driving? It could be a misadjustment of the parking brake, but most likely, the caliper is seized up and needs replacement. If that's the case, just remove all the bolts like suggested and go to town on it. Beat it off with a hammer if you must. It's no good to you anymore, so get it off with any means necessary. It can be done, I've removed seized calipers before.
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