Brake help!

AcCoRdKiD23 · May 4, 2013

Im changing my rear brake pads and the pistol on the caliper won't push back in..... I've tried just pushing it and C clamping it and it won't budge. Now I've taken the caliper apart and I can't figure out why this pistol won't move....someone please HELP!! :ugh:

RedRyder · May 4, 2013

Turn the piston clockwise, that's why that flat indent is there. It's not hard, just need something with a large flat end on it.

http://www.6thgenaccord.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46117

AcCoRdKiD23 · May 4, 2013

Tried that and no go.... it was just spining and not going down

F23A1AT · May 4, 2013

Do you have a relief for the brake fluid to go? i.e. open the bleeder so you don't have to force fluid all the way back to the reservoir. It is hard as fuuuu to turn the piston but it will yield.

RedRyder · May 4, 2013

Did you put it back together correctly? Or did you try that before you took it apart? When the head of the piston is flush with the rubber boot around it, that's as far as it will go. The front calipers you compress, the rear calipers you turn. Mine turned pretty easily. Course they're a few years old, they were replaced in 2009 or so.

If everything is where it's suppose to be and turning does nothing...something is wrong.

AcCoRdKiD23 · May 4, 2013

F23A1AT said:
Do you have a relief for the brake fluid to go? i.e. open the bleeder so you don't have to force fluid all the way back to the reservoir. It is hard as fuuuu to turn the piston but it will yield.

I'm doing that right now and it went down some but not enough

AcCoRdKiD23 · May 4, 2013

RedRyder said:
Did you put it back together correctly? Or did you try that before you took it apart? When the head of the piston is flush with the rubber boot around it, that's as far as it will go. The front calipers you compress, the rear calipers you turn. Mine turned pretty easily. Course they're a few years old, they were replaced in 2009 or so.

If everything is where it's suppose to be and turning does nothing...something is wrong.

No I took it aprt then I tried to spin it.... I'm working on it as we speak and it still all apart

AcCoRdKiD23 · May 4, 2013

As I spin it will it stop spining at some point

RedRyder · May 4, 2013

When my piston became flush with the boot, it kept turning but didn't go anywhere. So basically when it's flush with the boot you're done.

Brimstone Brown · May 4, 2013

Is this the caliper on the passenger side where you had that suspension issue?

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