Ive had the car about a month now and the rear brakes have worked but the right passanger rear side rear always made that metal scratching sound and when i hit the brakes it gets twice as loud. After overlooking the rear brakes on each side I noticed they were older,still had decent life on them but they were old. The rotors have like patches of weird scrapes on them.
So im off of work today and I grabbed some new pads and rear rotors and when I popped the passanger side off and took the brakes apart, I went to screw the piston back in the caliper and it wont depress( Rsx’s have the push in pistons upfront that is easily solved by a c clamp, but on the rears they are the shitty old school screw ins). If the piston wont depress after turning it numerous times the calipers probably shot right?
anyone? now when I was taking apart the drivers side the caliper bracket bolts started pulling out of the caliper and the rubber boots slid up like crazy.
yea man it turns, i give up ive done a ton of brake jobs and this is difficult and just flat out strange. Ill gladly give someone some money to come help me finish this up tomorrow.
I was going to mention opening the bleeder. Are you doing this with the resevoir cap off or on? I know I had a ton of issues with my 04 TL rear brakes. All 4 were the push in type, not screw in. I just ended up replacing the calipers. I will be much better of in the long run that way.
I might do that the pass side just keeps turning and wont depress. The right one wont even turn and the caliper bolts are pulling out of the rubber sleeves and its coming apart now.
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hm yea the rear brakes on rsx’s are terribly flawed almost everyone i know with one has had some issues. They are just very poorly designed compared to the front brakes.Hell even the lower caliper bracket bolt is hidden by the ebrake cable so the only kind of wrench you can get on it is an open end crescent wrench and there’s like half a centimeter of clearance to get the damn screw out.
If replacement calipers are even being considered, you might as well just take the whole caliper off and try and get it to compress in a vise/on a bench…plus that will take out a lot of other variables being the problem (brake line, fluid res cap being on/off, plugged bleeder, etc)…even if you dont want to replace them, the couple times ive had issues taking them off and bleeding all the brakes was way easier imo then trying to mess with it on the car.
im def doing that i have a replacement pass side caliper, but on rsx’s they have shitty screw in pistons in the rear with the x on them so its more of a pain in the ass than the normal push in ones
im basically at the point of where if anyone knows what there doing with this and has experience in shit like this would wanna come help me finish it up id gladly pay someone for their time.
Are you using the caliper tool thing? i tried doing it on my integra without it and it wouldn’t budge, went to harbor freight and bought their POS tool and it was 837393828289393x easier. Ive used it everytime now and i prob save myself like 20min per wheel Lol
I couldnt find one at any parts stores in west seneca but I ended up using a crowbar with a nice tip on it. The pass side turns and turns but wont compress and the drivers side wont turn and the calipers starting to pull in half lol