Rear break pad installation problem
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Rear break pad installation problem
Over the weekend my friend and I were replacing all of the break pads for the front and rear (we only had time for the rear). So I bought hawk hps all around we began the work on the rear etc etc. As we took off the old solid rotors and put in the drilled and slotted, removed the old break pads and put in the hawk hps. The caliper would not close in fully we tried to figure it out and we were just cursing at the thing for hours Anyways, strange thing is we put the old pads on and the caliper closed fully with no problems. I've already done searching and I have found a similar problem like mine but it did not give me a definite solution. That is pretty much my question on how can I have the caliper close fully with the hawk pads?
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from what i have read (dont know from experiance) but the non-vented rear break rotors arent as thick, and if your old rotors were non-vented and the new drilled/slotted rotors are for the vented rear it wont fit. you said that the old pads did fit, that could just be because they are worn down enough that it clears the rotor, so you might need to buy the calipers for the vented system to use the new rotors.
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from what i have read (dont know from experiance) but the non-vented rear break rotors arent as thick, and if your old rotors were non-vented and the new drilled/slotted rotors are for the vented rear it wont fit. you said that the old pads did fit, that could just be because they are worn down enough that it clears the rotor, so you might need to buy the calipers for the vented system to use the new rotors.
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it'd be a lot cheaper to just buy some used ones off of someone on here or a junk yard (maybe $50-$75) then buy the caliper rebuild kit from mazdatrix for $39.25. a little sand blasting and work. definatly cheaper then $195.19 for the factory rebuilt ones from mazdatrix. but if the rotors matched up pretty close, you shouldn't need new calipers.
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another thing to check, i read that there is a small peg on the back of the brake pad must go into the recessed part of the piston face, if its not the rotor wont fit between the pads.
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When screwing in the rear caliper piston, make sure that when it is all the way in the two pie shaped intentation on the piston are virtical - so the piston looks like an "H" when you look at it. Then the little peg on the back of the pad will just fit into one of those recessed pies. Also be sure that your parking brake is off!
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When screwing in the rear caliper piston, make sure that when it is all the way in the two pie shaped intentation on the piston are virtical - so the piston looks like an "H" when you look at it. Then the little peg on the back of the pad will just fit into one of those recessed pies. Also be sure that your parking brake is off!
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If the piston doesn't go all the way in it is probably seized.
And FWIW autozone sells reman calipers for $152. $52 for the core. So about $100.
I just replaced one last weekend.
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And FWIW autozone sells reman calipers for $152. $52 for the core. So about $100.
I just replaced one last weekend.
James
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I think one of the calipers I was working on is seized but its alright now that I got another pair of calipers that go with the rotors. All I need to do is to rebuild them.
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