HELP ! Rear Caliper carrier sezied

[upsetzombie]

Hi all,,

 

Long time lurker, first time (ish) poster....

 

My car failed its MOT with a seized rear caliper, ( so i bought new caliper and new rear discs and pads), but the calipers are both fine and wound back in smoothly and easily...

 

The problem is the upper carrier slider on the R/O/S, is this easy to free up ?  or if not where can i get a new one and how much?

 

It seems to me that it should be easy enough to free off?!?!

 

I'd have had it off by now, but my 3/8 to 1/4 drive snapped and it's mothers day, so that is enough for today!!

 

thanks in advance

 

Z

 

 

[meaty101]

Iir from doing mine its two Allen bolts holding the carrier on. Because its brakes these are loctited on from the factory and can be quite tight. But mine came off with some force. You'll be better with 1/2in drive which will take more force, and providing there is room, a long breaker bar or large ratchet. It will come off though.

[Neily03]

Iir from doing mine its two Allen bolts holding the carrier on. Because its brakes these are loctited on from the factory and can be quite tight. But mine came off with some force. You'll be better with 1/2in drive which will take more force, and providing there is room, a long breaker bar or large ratchet. It will come off though.

Agreed, trying to undo those bolts with a 1/4in drive was only going to end one way....

[giandougl]

Use a breaker bar with a 1/2" drive, that's what I used to loosen my MK1 Fabia VRS ones off..

[upsetzombie]

Thanks for the replies.

Yep you're right about getting 1/4 inch drive. I got three of the four off,but inevitably it broke on the fourth...

I didn't explain my problem well enough, the bolt isn't the issue, I'll get that off tomorrow when I've bought the right tool.

It's the slider that has seized on the caliper carrier, do I just hammer it out and clean and grease it? Can't find a replacement rear caliper carrier in stock anyway

Thanks again

[meaty101]

The sliders are just clipped on. Just give it a spray with some wd40 and get a screw driver in the back off it and pop it off.

[upsetzombie]

Thanks, I'm guessing once I've got it off tomorrow what you say will be clear.

[meaty101]

Thanks, I'm guessing once I've got it off tomorrow what you say will be clear.

No problem buddy. Let us know how it goes.

[upsetzombie]

Well once I had a 1/2 inch 8mm hex socket I had the caliper slider off within 5 mins and freed up, greased and reassembled 15 mins later.

Brakes are now great. But the garage messed up the wishbone bush replacement so the bearing might be knackered..

[upsetzombie]

Garage have fitted a new bearing, so all sorted. All's well that ends well and all that.