[Supras] Frozen calipers - best options?

[Robert Kozak]

Just for your consideration:

A Warner rebuild kit from O'reilly's was about $5 bucks per side (91T). Yes - 5 dollars. My front pins were seized and fortunately are included in the kit. A little elbow grease and presto.

The rear brake system has a park brake (drum brake) integrated in addition to the caliper, but don't know if this is why not available from...........

My rears were fine, but used pad lube and brake-quiet adhesive (for pad backing anti-squeak plate) after scrubbing the whole thing down just as I had done for the fronts. Flushed/replaced all the brake fluid for good measure (habit from my Porsche days). 

Reused pads (lots of meat). Deglazed the rotors and good to go. Helps I'm an ASE master. All told - Kits, brake cleaner, brake fluid, other junk I was into it for about $30 to $40 total. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Glen K<mailto:supra87t at hotmail.com> 
  To: suprarossa at aol.com<mailto:suprarossa at aol.com> ; supras at supras.com<mailto:supras at supras.com> 
  Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [Supras] Frozen calipers - best options?


  You can buy rebuilt calipers with pads and everything for ~$200 from autozone look for "Calipers-Loaded Pair". It's not even worth messing around trying to free up stuck calipers that will probably stick again when you can get rebuilt ones that cheap.
   
  Glen



  > From: Suprarossa at aol.com<mailto:Suprarossa at aol.com>> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:04:52 -0400> To: supras at supras.com<mailto:supras at supras.com>> Subject: [Supras] Frozen calipers - best options?> > All four calipers on my "new" 1989 Turbo are frozen, which shouldn't be a > surprise considering how many years it had been sitting before being rescued > and brought into my stable. What are the Supra Gurus suggestions to get > reliable calipers at a decent price? Repair, replace (and with rebuilt or new)? All > I've found so far in searching is a company named Cardona (or something close > to that) with rebuilt calipers for $90 each. But they only have the fronts > available. Why not the rears?> > Greg Altig> Keymar, MD> > '92 & (2) '89 Mk III Turbo/Targa/5 speed> "The 5 liter eaters"> _http://www.geocities.com/suprarossa_ (http://www.geocities.com/suprarossa<http://www.geocities.com/suprarossa>) > _http://www.mdsupras.com_ (http://www.mdsupras.com/<http://www.mdsupras.com/>) > _______________________________________________> Supras mailing list> Supras at supras.com<mailto:Supras at supras.com>> http://supras.com/mailman/listinfo/supras_supras.com<http://supras.com/mailman/listinfo/supras_supras.com>
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