I'm in the middle of doing front brakes and now i'm at the point where everythings gotta go back together but i cant get the brake piston to go back in. I'm usinging a c-clamp and tightened it as far as it will go and the piston wont budge. I even used a cheater bar to help tighten the clamp. I'd rather not resort to taking it off the car and having to bleed the brakes. Any suggestions?

 

If you can't get it in with nothing but your hand turning the clamp, your caliper is forzen. Didn't you make a post the other day saying your car pulls to one side while braking?

 

take the cap off the fluid reservior to relieve the pressure. make sure you wrap a rag around it incase any comes out, cuz brake fluid eats away at paint

 

it was about that one side wearing faster than the other one. So its frozen? New caliper that means?

I'm gonna go ahead and try the other side. i hope i don't run into the same problem because that is a brand new caliper. Ill let u know how it goes when im done.


Ohh and the cap is off, didn't help though


Modified by eric416 at 4:27 PM 3/27/2007

 

I finished the other side with no problem. I guess it is frozen and ill have to go get a new one. Thanks guys

 

jast a thought slacken the the brake flexi hose on the caliper if still does not go back then definatley caliper, if it does then its your flexi hose but this will identify the problem 100%