I swear, I must really suck or this is just a bitch, but I can’t install the
pads on the rear brakes.
Those fuckin retrainers just wont stay and I dunno if I’m doing it wrong
or what, but I just can’t do it. I spent like 3hrs in the garage trying to
install the pads on the driver side and its still not done.
Anyone wanna come by Fri. evening or Sat. morning and give me a hand?
Thanks,
first of all turn the piston clockwise and seat it entirely
then pull the pads out obviously
then remount the retainers in there, the little 90 degree things that look almost like teeth sit on the inside of the caliper and the metal sliding part fits inbetween the caliper
put the pad loosely in the caliper
hold the metal shims in with your index fingers at the back of the caliper (towards the piston) and hold them out all the way
using your thums press the tabs of the brake pad into the caliper and it should slide right in you need to get it dead on or it wont slide in.
you can do it man it just takes practice
Well, the car must be ready for Sunday so it’s now or never.
Thanks homefry, will try what you suggested.
Why couldn’t Nissan have just used pins as retainers (like up front). Ugh.
I think these are the same rear brakes as the 200sx… I just did mine last week, if you want help, I can come by tomorrow (saturday) morning…
add me on msn
:bowdown:
I’m in Brampton so it might be a drive if you coming form TO. Your call.
I’ll MSN you tonight (I’m at work right now).
I’m going to attempt it tonight and hopefully have some success.
Thanks,
One other thing.
I kept turning the piston clockwise but it wasn’t going anywhere…
So I just used a rubber mallet and hammered it in. It’s just a piston
right? Not anything threaded? :dunno:
IBmybrakesarescrewed
alternatively you could have used a large C-clamp. Put the ball end of the clamp in the brake piston and turn the clamp till the brake is fully compressed.
Ok, so as long as I didn’t damage the piston by hammering on it.
Actually I put a large socket over the piston and hammered on the socket.
Seeme dto work out ok and nothing was damaged. :dunno:
Sorry, I should have read your post more closely.
Compressing the front pistons is perfectly fine. The rears should be rotated down clockwise because of the e-brake setup. You might need to apply some pressure while rotating. If its really pesky take off the caliper put it in a shop vice and use a nice big pair of pliers to screw the piston back down with a bit of force. As for whether or not you damaged your brakes I think you should be okay. Just make sure to test them and the e-brake before driving. (and bleed the system if you removed the caliper)
soo your piston can turn but not go in?
if it’s sticking very out and turning and not going in, then you might have poped the piston out, --> nneed a caliper overhaul
use a small plyer to turn it and push the plyer in it while turning…
one of mine didn’t turn after half way…
I ended up getting a remanufactured cailper
I only had to hammer it in maybe a few mm. I dunno what kind of
force is required while turning it so after getting impaitent, I just tapped
at it with a hammer.
So well the good news is I got the pads seated in the retainer good.
But now the god damn rotors won’t fit. Seems like the pads are a few mm
too thick or some shit.
I got some generic pads from Napa (box reads 94 240sx ; I have a 92).
I checked the FSMs; all generations of 240sx have the same rear rotor
and pad size/configuration.
Perhaps I need to shave the pads down a few? It’s the pad that’s on the
outside (the one touching the front face of the rotor).
if your rotor dones’t fit , it means that you have to turn the piston a few more times to put the piston more into the caliper
turn it clockwise and if your stuck, turn it counterclockwise and return it in again
Welp, found the problem (thanks to Paul aka Axlerod).
Turns out that one of the slider pins is seized. Hence the uneven wear on
the pads that came out of that caliper.
I tried hammering it, turning it with vice grips and its not moving one bit.
So as a last resort, I used the pad from the other side that still had good
meat left and even wear. With this pad the rotor fit.
Not only that, but that same caliper wouldn’t retract in even while turning
it clockwise. The other side, however did retract in upon turning and its
sliders were still good.
But I’ll definitely need to replace this caliper soon seeing it won’t last
long (I commute about 400-500km/week for work :noes: )
And after I had figured out how to put the pads in the caliper, it took me
maybe 30min tops to do the other side. Now I’m an expert. :wiggle:
Thanks to everyone who helped :grouphug:
Now everyone else tell him not to re-use his pads, like I did. Buy a $24 rotor and use it with the old pads until you get your caliper fixed.
The old pad you put in there will wear out really fast and likely damage your rotor, since it is siezed the brake will never release fully.
Also dont hammer sliders if you want to be able to reuse them :squint:
Pic #1 - Bad caliper with old pad in the front
Pic #2 - Bad caliper with new pad and rotor for comparison
Pic #3 - Good caliper with new pads
Pic #4 - Bad caliper with new pads
I think I have an extra set of rear calipers kicking around somewhere, hit me up on msn.