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- Aug 6, 2007
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- Location
- Berrien Springs, MI
- Vehicle Year
- 2022
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- RE Interceptor
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- Manual
- My credo
- If you can't go through it or around it, then go over it.
So a friend of mine from work asked me if I could change the brake pads on his 1992 Toyota Paseo. Ok so I jacked up the right side and it literally took me longer jack up the car and get the wheel off than it did to change the pads. Put the wheel back on and let the car off the jack. Jacked up the driver side, took the wheel off and the caliper pins are rounded off (driver side brakes are metal to metal) so I tell my friend I couldn’t do it there at work and I needed it in my driveway. This was Thursday. Saturday after work I towed his car to my house on my dolly and we started working on it again. I used my impact and took the whole caliper mounting bracket and all off.... but to do this I also had to take the strut out. We got the pads changed (but lost one of the anti rattle clips) and spent an hour fighting with the caliper mount to get the bolts threaded into it. Spin the rotor and it feels fine. Put the wheel on and he backs it out of my driveway and goes to leave but the car is working way to hard to move, pull it back in the drive way and jack it back up and the wheel won’t turn. Pull the wheel off and look at the thing and we’ll its missing an anti rattle clip, this is a misleading name because these are not anti rattle clips but clips that hold the pads is place. Go to autozone because there were no new clips in the brake pad box and order the clips.
Today: It’s snowing but I want this car out of my driveway. got the clips, installed the clipsinstalled the clips but now the pads won’t fit in the caliper, to long by a micron.... spend 30 min filing the edge of the pad down and it fits. Installed the caliper (no fight this time because we figured it out yesterday) and the wheel is still bound.... ok so because I didn’t take out the guid pins I didn’t recently the caliper on the guide pins... this has to to be the problem..... pulled the caliper back off... took it completely off the car and set it on my work bench. Grabbed my easy outs but my set does not have a 12mm. So I grab the caliper and go to Napa because sometimes they can fix things like this.
They couldn’t get the guide pins out either, the caliper is frozen on the pins and won’t slide.... but they pointed out that even if I got the pins out I would still have to clean it up and hone the inside of the hole and put new rubbers over the pins.....
Ordered a bracketed caliper that is going to come fully assembled, all I have to do is put in the pads, install it on the car, and bleed it. But because it is a Toyota Paseo, nobody has the caliper in stock and I can’t get it until Tuesday..... not even our local Toyota wrecking yard has a damn Paseo.... so what should have taken me 30 min tops has been going on for 4 hours yesterday and 3 hours today. This f*****g car has cheated me out of a victory and I hate this car. Every time I work on a foreign it makes me appreciate my Ford even more
Today: It’s snowing but I want this car out of my driveway. got the clips, installed the clipsinstalled the clips but now the pads won’t fit in the caliper, to long by a micron.... spend 30 min filing the edge of the pad down and it fits. Installed the caliper (no fight this time because we figured it out yesterday) and the wheel is still bound.... ok so because I didn’t take out the guid pins I didn’t recently the caliper on the guide pins... this has to to be the problem..... pulled the caliper back off... took it completely off the car and set it on my work bench. Grabbed my easy outs but my set does not have a 12mm. So I grab the caliper and go to Napa because sometimes they can fix things like this.
They couldn’t get the guide pins out either, the caliper is frozen on the pins and won’t slide.... but they pointed out that even if I got the pins out I would still have to clean it up and hone the inside of the hole and put new rubbers over the pins.....
Ordered a bracketed caliper that is going to come fully assembled, all I have to do is put in the pads, install it on the car, and bleed it. But because it is a Toyota Paseo, nobody has the caliper in stock and I can’t get it until Tuesday..... not even our local Toyota wrecking yard has a damn Paseo.... so what should have taken me 30 min tops has been going on for 4 hours yesterday and 3 hours today. This f*****g car has cheated me out of a victory and I hate this car. Every time I work on a foreign it makes me appreciate my Ford even more