Caliper's locking up, Just need to bleed? Options

[senick]

So as the title goes, I had my car on a lift, engine on and in neutral, and the front passenger wheel was encountering a decent amount of resistance when spinning. I can only guess it's the caliper. Interestingly, the passenger rear is experiencing the same problem, only its the shoes against the drum. A guy I worked with suggested it's a bad caliper, which is also causing uneven pressure distribution in the back locking it up as well. I'm just thinking if the caliper itself is bad, or I just need to bleed the brakes and see if there's stuff in there. What do you guys think? And is the procedure for bleeding pretty easy with these cars? The old horse is pretty weather worn, so I'm worried I might snap something off the release valve when I try and bleed it.

[Needles]

you can try rebuilt the 2 little piston of the galiper yourself, by sanding it and put new grease,
for the big piston, you can try put him back whit a vice-grip kind of tool...( the big clamp vice grip )
or whit a hammer and a tool, gentlely put the cylinder into place until it reaches end, and push the brake pedal so it expend again, and push it back on whit vice grip[ again, and again

this proceep helped me one time get back from bad caliper but its not gonna work for a long time, maybe, or maybe not, and its maybe not gonna work at all, but if you want to try something, ....


This post has been edited by Needles: Oct 25, 2011 - 7:14 PM