#Caliper slide pins zip#

The lug nuts still feel really hot after normal driving but that happens on both Civics, so that's just how they run. After the job I compared the temps of the rotors and the calipers to another Civic and they were within a few degrees of each other, so I'm satisfied. When she came home last week, I still thought they were too hot so I decided that for $160 I could replace everything from the banjo bolt out, including the rotors. I didn't have that time, so I put it all back together and sent my daughter back to school. I was going to change the brackets, but on the day I was doing the job, it would have taken me a couple of hours just to drive to one side town for the left bracket and the other side of town for the right. I found that the pads were rust-jacked into the brackets and I had to hammer them out with a rubber mallet.Ĭleaning the rust off of the brackets and changing the clips helped a lot, but I still felt that they were getting too hot, so I changed the slider pins. When we first bought the vehicle at 90K the brakes would smell after normal driving. Those pins are fairly new because I replaced them a few months ago in an attempt to solve the heat problem, but they didn't help.Ĭlick to expand.Yes, that was the case. I may also try one of the sliders from the original calipers. The last thing I want to do is use a caliper set up that is actually going to cause a heat problem! The purpose of this entire exercise is eliminate a heat problem I've been having with this vehicle's brakes. I did try putting the caliper on (without the brake pads) and the pin pushes the whole thing towards the rotor, so I know it will be putting pressure on that pad. The other three just move out a little when I push them in, probably just because of the dust boot expanding back to a uncompressed state. I am really reluctant to pull any more pins to check for lube.

My next move (in the morning) will to remove the rubber 'ring' from the tip and see what happens. So I push the pin back in, and out it slowly slides, at least 3/4'. I twirled a piece of paper towel up so it'll fit in the hole and it came out almost perfectly clean, no grease.

#Caliper slide pins zip#

I stick a clean zip tie back in and get the tiniest little bit of grease on the end. I grab a can of brake cleaner, I stick the little red hose in the hole and blast away. Thinking there might be a glob of grease way down inside the hole, I tried to dig it out with a plastic zip tie and I did get some out. Thinking there might be air behind it, I unhook the dust boot so it's not sealed and push the pin back in, and out it slowly slides, at least 3/4'.