needing to replace the rear brake calipers on my 89 hatch but doesnt realy show how to do it on here. any suggestions?

Here is a link to the Factory service manual is will have step by step instructions.

http://www.nicoclub.com/FSM/240sx/1989/1989.pdf

I'm not being a smartass, I'm just not sure if you knew about it already.

Modified by Kelbizzle at 9:44 PM 3/13/2010
Modified by Kelbizzle at 10:13 PM 3/13/2010

Ok what you have to do is unbolt the caliper by removing the two 14mm bolts one on top on bottom. before doing this you could take a 10mm socket wrench and loosen the brake line first its just a little easier. after that take a pair of needle nose pliers and pull the Ebrake cable out of its socket and the caliper should come right off then do the reverse to put it back on. hope this helped

grease the caliper pins that sit in caliper bracket even if they are sliding freely.

http://www.nicoclub.com/archiv....html

This shows the caliper off

laxands13 wrote:http://www.nicoclub.com/archiv....html

This shows the caliper off

The problem with that is that he took the caliper bracket off along with the caliper. should only take the caliper off.

The fsm does not describe procedure. It does describe bleeding procedure. not sure how practical it is though.














Modified by vancouverbc at 8:12 PM 3/14/2010

thank u so much. just not sure how to remove the ebrake tho

melvingoku wrote:thank u so much. just not sure how to remove the ebrake tho

Look at the first pic from the post above. There is a 14mm bolt there. Remove it (easier when caliper is still on the bracket) and you can remove the ebrake cable.

jessetang wrote:
Look at the first pic from the post above. There is a 14mm bolt there. Remove it (easier when caliper is still on the bracket) and you can remove the ebrake cable.

I did this 5 yrs ago but I dont think there is any bolt to remove. Make sure parking brake lever is released inside car. Just remove the 2 14mm pin bolt and the caliper is free. You just twist the cable with plier or something and it detaches. Its not hard if you look at how it works for a minute.

vancouverbc wrote:
I did this 5 yrs ago but I dont think there is any bolt to remove. Make sure parking brake lever is released inside car. Just remove the 2 14mm pin bolt and the caliper is free. You just twist the cable with plier or something and it detaches. Its not hard if you look at how it works for a minute.

yea im sure this is the correct way bc im dont see any "bolt" on the new brake calipers i have. a coworker of mine wit exsperience in this said that there is something that needs to be adjusted. it seems to me like its just like a throttle body cable but it seems there is a tad bit more to it then that.....and u can beat exsperience lol

wow. great job nico. NO ONE came in here and did the whole "search you newb" practice that has been done way too often lately.

Just thought I'd point that out. Maybe things are changing