Anybody with experiences? The piston seals are shot on both of mine and I figured I'd do it all. Are there any ssr's that I need or can I do it with normal garage tools? I did the front calipers were last year but those look easy compared with the rears. Thanks.

Mark

 

nobody's rebuilt their rear calipers?

 

I just bought some used ones.

Pretty cheap and less fuss. I wouldn't bother with rebuilding a set.

 

There was a thread somewhere with detailed pics and parts to do that. Try searching. Might be in 3rd gen section

 

I searched all over message board - didn't find info. Rebuild process is pretty straight forward, I already rebuilt similar rear calipers on Audi before.

Question to somebody who knows...
There is 3 different type of grease included in rebuild kit.
1. small tube with oil-looking fluid
2. 2 packets with orange grease
3. 1 packet with purple grease

Which grease goes where? FSM doesn't say anything.

 

Anyone?

 

According to this post Ray Crowe at Malloy Mazda is selling reman'ed rear calipers for 115 a pop.

 

And rebuild kit rebuilds pair of them for $61 (from Ray Crowe). And you know who did this rebuilt and it takes about 1 hour to do them.

Question is what grease used where...

 

Can't help on the grease, bought a non-genuine rebuild kit over here for about $20 ~30 odd, which looked like it contained a white lithium type for lubricating the gear for the handbrake mechanism, if memory serves. Used some caliper compound inserting the pistons, other than that nothing remarkable except the circlip at the base of the bore, which is pretty fiddly using Chinese circlip pliers.

 

I'm done. Liquid smelled like brake fluid, so I assumed it' to lube piston/seal. Orange was for handbrake mechanism and sliders. Purple - I used to lube boots.

I can tell 1 thind. Power bleader isn't good for fresh fill up on 4 rebuilt calipers (I had ignition ON for opening ABS). Will have to repeat with friend and manual pump-and-open way..

For clamps I used pair of long pliers from Autozone which I grinded before when I rebuilt Audi calipers. BTW, FD calipers designed better with those needle bearings and were in perfect shape inside also nobody replaced fluid in ages...

Will attach images from when I did it on audi, but you get an idea of my rig..