Hey everyone,

Need to replace the front brake pads on my 87 hatchback. AutoZone no longer carries the brake pads for the car (D291) and they can't even order them. They can order a $35 set of Beck-Arnley pads but I am not going to spend that much for pads for this car. Most other auto part stores listings are wrong for the car, so I am hesitant to special order them and pay shipping for them to be wrong and have to send them back. I have an new set of D189 pads laying around from my 80 Subaru that will somewhat fit, but they are kind of loose. Has anyone tried using using these and have them work? Can you put some type of shim in there to keep them from wobbling around? Thanks...

Order pads for an 84 wagon.

 

GD

with the hatchback the parts listings can be vague since the cross referencing confuses it with ea82 stuff. try asking for parts for an 84 wagon or the same year BRAT

First off, don't try and jerry rig your brakes. That's the one system not to mess around with.

 

Second, don't use your specific car. Use the parts for an 84 GL wagon. This is what I came up with from Napa (not an endorsment, just the first link in my shopping folder).

 

http://www.napaonline.com/masterpages/NOLMaster.aspx?PageId=430&CatId=3&SubCatId=1

 

I checked out AZ and you are right, they only sell the gold plated ones :eek:

Later, Tim

 

WOW, in the six minutes I was looking up parts you got the answer three times

Thanks guys. I'm also rebuilding a brake caliper. The rubber seal around the piston has a tear in it and now the brakes on that side are dragging. I bought a rebuilding kit from AutoZone for $2.99, so hopefully the job is not that hard. Has anyone done this before?

Thanks guys. I'm also rebuilding a brake caliper. The rubber seal around the piston has a tear in it and now the brakes on that side are dragging. I bought a rebuilding kit from AutoZone for $2.99, so hopefully the job is not that hard. Has anyone done this before?

 

You need special tools to get them back together due to the integrated parking brake mechanism. It's a royal pain in the arse.

 

GD

I won't be touching that parking brake mechanism. I'm just going to pop the piston out and replace the 2 seals and push it back in. Is that a pain in the butt to do?

I won't be touching that parking brake mechanism. I'm just going to pop the piston out and replace the 2 seals and push it back in. Is that a pain in the butt to do?

 

It's INTEGRATED. The piston is on a screw that is actuated by the parking brake lever. You can't do anything to it without dissasembling the whole mechanism. Like I said - huge, royal, pain in the a$$.

 

GD

Thanks everyone for the advice. I was able to push the piston out of the caliper by pumping the brake pedal. Once it came out, I cleaned all the rust off it and then replaced the piston seal in the cylinder. Then I screwed the piston back into place and put a new piston boot on...the caliper works like new now! It was a pretty easy job to do.