Rear Caliper Has Play Options

[trdproven]

Might need the forum guys help on this if you've already experienced it. Can't seem to find the right results from the search function.

I have play in the rear calipers. My guess is thats either normal or abnormal. So if its abnormal I'm guessing this is the pins causing the pad to move, and i get some clunks.

1. Do I just regrease the slider pins? I noticed the top is not a bolt, didn't really look at it but if anyone has some insight how this is removed that would make me anticipate better but either way I can take a look at it.

2. Do I just get new calipers? which would solve the problem anyway.

3. Get new brake pads.

4. Buy new Pins and just replace it?

This post has been edited by trdproven: Jun 16, 2012 - 11:54 AM

[Galcobar]

Check the parking brake hardware. I had a clunk which I could not for the life of me track down, until I ran out of suspension and other parts to check and looked at my e-brake assembly.

The e-brake shoes are held against the backing plate by hold-down springs. The springs are kept under tension with pins. One of those pins is bent so that it curves to accommodate the shoe -- and my passenger-side curved pin had straightened out partway. This meant less compression of the hold-down spring, which in turn meant the shoe wasn't being held as tightly. A bump of the right type and the shoe would slap against the backing plate producing a distinctively metal-on-metal clank.

Correction was simple enough, I just re-bent the pin into shape. That was a few years ago and it hasn't un-bent itself. I did find that the first time I re-bent the pin it straightened back out after a while, but I think that was because I didn't curve it deeply enough to hold the shoe completely flat; allowing a little movement meant the shoe could tap the pin straight, while keeping it flat means no inertia to work against the pin.