My brake pedal was kinda mushy and the brakes are weak, so we decide to bleed my brakes. Take off the rear wheels, and lo and behold, my rear calipers are siezed completely shut. We start disassembling things... need new calipers, need new pads, the rotors are rusted to my hub bearings, general yuckiness abounds.

We head over to my local Honda/Acura junkyard. I ask them for calipers and the 'hub assembly' (wrong word!) from a 94/95 Accord. The guy tells me he can drop the whole rear suspension and give it to us for $350. We're a bit skeptical, but after using my bother in law's cellphone we decide that it's still cheaper than getting everything new. We then search the entire junkyard and only find one Accord that has what I need.

What do you know, it's completely surrounded on all sides by at least four mangled corpses of Accords. The yard workers complain a bit, but drag out the forklift to start hauling cars around. I think I'm responsible for their reorganization of the yard, one access route shifted about 20 feet to the right. They also flatten a tire on the forklift in the process. I thought sailors cursed a lot, you should hear junkyard workers.

They bring the wrecked Accord up to the front to dismantle the rear, and when Lee comes over he corrects us on the terminology, apparently the hub assembly is basically everything in the wheelwell. I just needed the rotor, hub bearing, and calipers. We pulled everything off, but when the rotor came off, the hub bearing popped apart, sending little ball bearings everywhere. Turned out the rotors were rusted to the hub bearing housing anyway, so we decided not to take it. The calipers were good, and believe it or not so were the pads.

Advance Auto has hub bearings for $90 new, I'll probably end up getting some, but I don't have the money now, so I put the original hubs and rotors back on. They'll work for the time being. Bled the brakes, check the front, bled them too, front pads and rotors are good, though the rotors will need to be turned. But still, I can push the brake pedal 1/3 of the way in before the brakes engage.

So, my questions are:

Any way to tighten my brakes up some more?

When I get new rotors, are these any good? I assume they are since they're Brembo...
http://www.nopionline.com/index.cfm?...20Brake%20Disc

 

yes brembo's are great!...and i bet those junkyard guys weren't too happy when you decided not to take all that stuff...haha...

 

Kick ***, and OEM's are $60+ and Brembo's are $25... what a deal.