whats wrong with my caliper?
03-14-05, 06:59 PM
#1
whats wrong with my caliper?
i got remanufactured calipers for the back and my left one is messed up or something. the e brake actuator just spins easily (im talking with everything on it off), doesnt compress and decompress at all, and lifts up instead of staying put. if you dont know what i mean exactly...hopefully this link works. (the pic kind of sucks) http://img107.exs.cx/img107/9602/q435y8dn.jpg. my other caliper is nice and has pressure to it while it moves up and down very little while spinning....like its supposed. one more thing, i tried to see what the piston did when i spun it in and out, it did nothing but spin around in circles. the only idea i have of all this is that the rod that the piston screws onto, there is a pin, and that may have popped up from the little groove its supposed to be in, making it just spin around. would that make a difference with the e brake problem then? please give me a little knowledge on this. i would go check one final time to see if i could figure it out but i have this pre ogt test **** tomarrow (for 9th graders) and i have lots of stuff to do tonight. hopefully i can get this all worked out without spending any more money! within the next month or 2 ill have a bunch of pics up of my complete brake/hub job. thanks
03-15-05, 06:21 PM
#5
nm....i figured it out after pulling the piston out and everything. just needed to push the piston shaft back more. turned out to be a bitch to get the piston back on cause the damn mechanism inside it kept spinning with my turns so we had to take a socket and make our own sst or whatever the hell they are called to fit onto the piston. worked like a charm.