Recent content by JGardner

Any luck on this?

Hey There - Toronto Calling, if you ever get close to the border I'd take both the wheels and tires off your hands. I'm happy to make a bit of a trip if need be.

Total brain fart... He replaced a caliper. Rotor was fine.

Well Folks, the shop has just replaced one caliper with no fuss given. I even asked and he said they looked at the other and found no need to replace it. So I guess that either means he's reasonable from a cost perspective or totally irresponsible... it all depends on your perspective. All I...

If you're still in Detroit, I'll be driving through on Sunday and would happily pick these up.

Hey All! Thanks for all the input and opinions. Ya'll will laugh but I made an appointment for the shop to change out the caliper - I'm pretty decent at doing things myself but between the bolt being epoxied on and needing to bleed the brake I figured my time would be better spent elsewhere. I...

Thanks for this - I thought I was good just to replace the one.

Yep - I really have no idea. And it'll certainly be more of a pain. It just doesn't make sense to me, I don't even know what it's functionally doing!

Crap - the other one looks to be in such good shape though. I was so excited about how easily I changed the pads... and then I saw the epoxy mess on the other one. Stopped me in my tracks

Yep - picked up a new caliper. Seems way easier than trying to reuse what someone screwed up. Does this look like the epoxy you speak of that can be loosened up with a torch and breaker bar?

I see - that makes sense. I went ahead and got the one that includes the bracket. Really not looking forward to working that epoxy off - or bleeding the brakes.

Color me dense, but what exactly does "non-bracketed" mean?

It totally IS! Thanks so much for the offer. However I think it'll probably just be cheaper to get them locally rather than shipping. There are still some pretty big challenges: 1) Somehow chipping through / getting off the epoxy / JBWeld 2) Extracting the bolt and determining whether it or the...

It's the bolt (Pins on front brakes, Bolts on the back brakes). I put it all back together in disgust yesterday but might have time to send through some pictures after work today.

Went to install new brake pads yesterday, finished the right rear and went to start the drivers side rear. Took a look at the caliper bolts (I figured I'd need some PB Blaster and a bit of time) and noticed that the bottom one is covered in a rock hard substance. You can tell it was spread on...