I have an 01 Ex. The lower brake caliper pin seems to be frozen in the mount. The boot is in good shape, I assume it wasn't lubed so it got stuck.

I pulled back the boot and sprayed wd-40 and struck it a few times with a hammer. No luck.

I'm thinking of hitting it with a torch but I don't want to mess up the boot. How do you extract this without messing sh*t up?

When you order the pin from honda does it come with a new boot? Autozone sells the pins but no boots.

Who got the skills?
Thanks

 

It doesnt come with a boot, it's just a pin. But those pins arent overly cheap, and normally its just wise to get a remanufactured caliper, trade in the old core and call it a day. A Civic caliper after core charge is probably about 30-40 bucks from autozone.

 

Yeah I'm thinking of just getting a rebuilt one but I'm cheap and this is a beater car. So I rather not spend the $$. Its $60 from autozone.

Figure a boot and pin should cost like $10. but trouble is finding them.

 

i've actually had this same problem. if you damage the boot using heat to get it off, it's not a big deal. i had to fab a boot for mine out of another boot that was way too big, and it's held grease and been totally fine for the past 4 months.