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The owner of my shop asked me to do a brake job on his 2008 Ford escape. Just the front wheels, which are disc. The caliper on the driver’s side had stuck open and that was the cause of the rotors rear side being torn up.
In this video I show you how to unstick the caliper:
You simply go inside the vehicle and press the brake, after the caliper has been removed from the rotor, and it will extend the caliper piston further, thus unbinding the bind.
This is the temporary fix though. More than likely the caliper will begin to do the same thing; bind up. I’ll be monitoring the progress over the next few weeks to see if the back of the rotor changes width. We don’t want to let this new rotor get too far gone or he’ll have to replace another rotor. A caliper is $61 for this 2008 Ford Escape.
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Thank you , many blessings to you and yours
Thank you
What do I do since the pistons are frozen. Can't get them down
Just replace them like I did 😂
When you get the piston moved out grease it before you compress it back, then clean it up. Should extend the life of the calliper. It gets dried out and rusted. Also if you wait too long to fix an issue like this the heat build up will burn out more parts like your bearing grease. If you have the assembly apart check the bearing and grease it. You will find the heat dried it out. I’m not even a mechanic, I just never had a new car and I fix my own stuff all the time. Pretty common issue 🤷♂️
This helped me after almost an hour of me fucking with my caliper, thank you!
Honestly thank you so much for this I was about to throw in the towel
Hey are you supposed to press the brake pedal while the tool is in place?? Or without the tool in place?
So I’ve done this now my caliper has the piston all the way out and can’t compress at all 😢
Pretty good tip 👍