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Old 07-15-2017, 12:05 PM #1
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TBU 13WL Frozen Pistons?

Seen tons of info of frozen caliper pistons, but not much input from those with 13WL calipers.

According to my records, I'm exactly 25k miles and 25 months into my TBU, and my drivers side caliper is starting to intermittently freeze up. Verified by random aggressive pulling left, ridiculous steering whee shudder under hard braking, brake pedal fading after hard braking, and hot as shit drivers wheel after a moderate length drive.

I went with Wearever brand reman'd calipers at the time.

Aside from fresh fluid and bleeding tonight after I get home from work, is there anything I can do to quickly remedy this random freezing as I'm looking at a 500 mile round trip tomorrow through Monday for work?

I'm assuming I'm better off with an OEM caliper rebuild kit and rebuilding them myself than I'd be to replace the whole caliper? But I simply don't have the time for that operation in the next 24 hours before I leave.

Looking for suggestions from those with the TBU 13wl calipers that have gone through frozen pistons. I've seen on some other boards the mention of penetrating grease to temporarily loosen the freezing pistons, but greasing anything regarding brake calipers sounds like a recipe for opening a can of worms.
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I think you got a good amount of time out of those non oems. I'm hoping I can get that much or more from my napa eclipse remans.

I would rebuild them with an OEM kit. I would not drive it 500 miles in it's current condition. I never found a quick remedy fix for this issue.
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