rear brake job? Options

[bdog_v]

Hello I just swapped my rear brake pads and rotors for new ones on my 94 gt. One side turned out like brakes normally do new, the wheel turns by hand with a little resistance. The other side is a different story. I could not turn the wheel with both hands at all and I had to pound the caliper to get it on even though I had the piston pressed in all the way. I tried the old rotor and it was the same so its not the new rotor.

-Can a poorly made set of brake pads cause this from being too thick?

-It looks like the outside pad is too thick, that's my guess.... I got the pads from rock auto so I can't just take em back.....

-ANyone experienced something similar?

thanks,
Brandon

[cyberblader1130]

what your thinking about is a fixed caliper. we have what they call a floating caliper. floating calipers do just as the name says, they float. The caliper bracket is bolted to the hub via 2 bolts. Then the caliper bolts to the caliper bracket, usually 1 or 2 bolts. without brake pads you should be able to slide the caliper back and forth, if you can't then it's seized and needs to be cleaned. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http:/...=1t:429,r:1,s:0 There's an exploded view of what a floating caliper is. Youll be able to see the support bracket and slides better than me failing at describing them its not an exact match to ours but the general idea of it.

This post has been edited by cyberblader1130: Nov 5, 2010 - 10:40 PM