My rear brake pads needed replacing, so I took the calipers off, and started looking at everything involved. Everything was going just great until I tried to compress the caliper back into the housing. They won't budge. Thinking that it was a problem with the caliper, even though both sides brakes worked perfectly last week, I took off the other side also, and it also wouldn't budge. Is there something wrong with my calipers, or is there something wrong with me?



BTW: 86 RX7, non-turbo, non-vented rear brakes.

And the car has lived in Virginia all it's life, so there has been snow and salt in it's history.

 

Hey my vert is originally from Virginia.. Anyways.. Maybe you can releive the presure in the brake lines if they are still hooked up, since you will need to bleed them again.. if not.. I dunno..

 

They're not still hooked up. I thought that the vise on the workbench might have a better time of it than the c-clamp under the car. Nothing.

 

you have to spin the pistons in, they are threaded



mike

 

You need to turn the piston a bit. Go Download the Brake section from the FSM from www.fc3s.org Then you will know what to do young grasshopper.

 

Twist them with a pair of channel-locks, or duckbill pliers and they will go right in.

 

PS , you arent an idiot, that is my title here

 

A pair of needlenose pliers did the trick for me, thanks guys. Is that a common sportscar thing, or is it unique to rotary vehicles?



On a slightly different note, which bleeder valve do I want to use after I re-install?

 

Your title is Apex13b, which sugests that your logic may be circular, but at least you don't claim to be an amphibian. You ever try to breathe underwater?

 

its a mazda thing, i dunno about much else



mike