The other day a rock wedged itself into a small space between the hat part of the front rotor, the pad holder, and the pad. I couldn't convince it to wiggle out, so per my factory manual's instructions, I had to remove the lower slide bolt and flip up the caliper. I removed the lower bolt just fine, but the pivoting up part caused me some problems. I had to pry the caliper up and move it up and down a few times before I could move it far enough to remove the brake pad.

My question is how easily should the caliper flip up with the lower slide bolt removed? This is on a 1990 CRX Si.

Thanks so much!

 

If it hadn't been removed for some time I could understand it being a little hard to break free.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CRXSi90 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The other day a rock wedged itself into a small space between the hat part of the front rotor, the pad holder, and the pad. I couldn't convince it to wiggle out, so per my factory manual's instructions, I had to remove the lower slide bolt and flip up the caliper. I removed the lower bolt just fine, but the pivoting up part caused me some problems. I had to pry the caliper up and move it up and down a few times before I could move it far enough to remove the brake pad.

My question is how easily should the caliper flip up with the lower slide bolt removed? This is on a 1990 CRX Si.

Thanks so much! </TD></TR></TABLE>

If it's freezing up like that it will not function as well when your braking. after you flip up the caliper just pull it out of the mounting bracket with the upper slide still bolt into the caliper. grease it up really well so it slides freely (no resistance what so ever) once reinstalled. if you have too much gummed up crap on it then remove the slide and take it to a wire wheel until it's all smooth and then grease it before reinstalling. I rec doing all 4 slides up front since that ones a little stuck. it will really help your brake pads to wear more evenly and like they are suppossed to

 

If it was hard to slide or move up or down, pull it off the slides and use some caliper grease on the slides till its smooth. It should slide with little to no effort.

 

Even wearing pads sounds good! I picked up some caliper grease, so I'll try to slide the caliper off the pin and lube it up when I have a block of time to work on it. Thanks for helping me understand how good working caliper slides should function.

 

I got it apart, cleaned and lubed it, and it slides MUCH better now. I noticed that the rubber boot for the slide was torn, so I will be getting a set of those soon also. Thanks for the help and encouragement.

Thanks Honda-Tech!