There any options out there for replacement brake calipers that anyone knows of?

I've got 2 seized ones (one is stuck to the sliding pin, one piston is seized) that are doing me no good and I can't seem to find anything out there on the internet.

 

Rear calipers started to be hard to find a couple years ago and now it seems front calipers are not available.

Hopefully it's just a temporary situation but more likely companies are finding that marketing rebuilt units is no longer profitable, so my guess is we need to find ways to get them rebuilt ourselves.

Rebuild kits are still available and I've found rebuilding the front calipers is relatively easy. The rears are more difficult and finding good cores for the rears can also be a problem.

Anyway, I've been saving my cores, both front and rear, over the last few years and have taken to rebuilding them myself when I need to do a brake job.

You might try soaking those stuck calipers in some solvent for a couple days and then try to work them loose, you might get lucky.

I just checked rockauto, they do have a variety of front calipers available, take a look you might see what you need:

https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...b,caliper,1704

 

Thanks Ray - that's what I feared. I've got them soaking now. Unfortunately they are both the rear left (one was my "spare") and i do have rebuild kits. Just gotta get it apart I guess.

Thanks!

 

Take your caliper to your local ACE hardware store and look at their brass selection. Find a threaded brass collar that roughly fits caliper brake line mounting hole and allows a grease fitting to screw into it. Brass collar only needs to thread in about 1.5 turns. Using grease gun,pump grease into caliper,it will displace piston with no damage to it or caliper bore 100% of the time.

If you need pics of what i'm describing,i can post what i use.

 

A working rear left caliper is worth a couple hundred bucks, I suspect.

 

Smart! I should've thought of that. I will try this next - have it soaking in a mix of atf/ps fluid right now which has been my friend in the past. Next step will be the hydraulic press as described.

Thanks!

 

Keep hunting the forums and ebay... good used rear calipers do come up. I have scored a good set of GSL and also GSL-SE over the last year or so.

Can try posting a wanted ad in the Parts forum. Can usually find someone that is parting out a GSL or GSL-SE.