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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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Awesome channel man, I'll be supporting you until you hit 100k subscribers. Best of luck and keep doing what you're doing.
I had this problem with a 2013 ford escape 1.6l ecoboost I tried pushing the brake. It still wouldn't budge. It was a twisting type. I tried the special tool. The other side had the same issue any ideas?
Nice work–easy explaining. I was painting calipers on my 2013 Lexus (they were half off) and while paint was drying I wanted to show my son my new yellow LED fog lights so I had to start car (yes, and push brake pedal while pushing start button) BIG OOPS.. Piston came out so far that now it doesnt want to go back at all seized up.
Brooooooo…. This video literally just saved me. It's like 100 degrees out and one caliper piston was seized. I ran out of options and was just about to give up when I saw this video. THANK YOU!!! 🙌🏽😁
Ok.. do I do this with the res. Cap on or off