April 17, 200817 yr Someone emailed me so i figured i'd include this information here. Anytime you do a brake job you should always grease the caliper slide pins...more so with older cars since they have a high chance of not being done before. The part that you unbolt, that swings away is the caliper. It swings, pivots and usually has two anchor points - one that you remove and the other that it swings on. It also has the caliper pistons in it. The two anchor points...the bolt you remove and the pivot point will both have rubber bushings. The actual set up can vary a little...but the idea is always the same - there's a sliding surface in there somewhere. There's a rubber boot to hold the grease in. Most likely there's no grease left anymore. You want to remove those pins and grease them up. Grease the entire shaft and put grease inside those rubber boots. Lots of extra grease will squirt out when you go to reinstall those pins, so have a rag or something handy. Move the pins in and out a few times to spread the grease around and make sure they move well. The two vehicles i just did were both in very bad shape for some reason...i've never had any problem with older EA rear discs so the newer gen must be more prone to this for some reason. I'd be prepared for a bad day. I would have never gotten the pins out without torches and enough clamps/bolts/metal to devise a make-shift on-the-fly press to get the pins out. If you have problems getting the caliper or pins off and can't afford down time with your car then an alternative is to get a set of rear calipers and brackets used. Then you can easily unbolt the entire assembly and swap it out with no issues. Good chance some of the rubber bushings/boots will be damaged or get torn up as well getting the pins out. I had to replace some of mine, luckily i had extra calipers lying around to use boots off of. Good luck!
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