bad strutts and rear calipers

[heyhi]

My car was sitting for a year. I took it to a mechanic finaly and got my jumping idle fixed and it was the mass air flow sensor wich I changed with a bad one from the junk yard in the first place

any ways. The mechanic told me he had my car on the lift and with the breaks on ,the rear tires were still turning and my calipers are frozen. How can i check to be sure the calipers are frozen and not the master cylinder. I trust this guy but I wanna fix it my self.

whats involved in chainging struts??

This is a stupid question. Im cleaning a after market air filter.. its a round one like k /n.. My question is cause ive never cleaned it ... Its made of like a screen that u would see on a window. Is it suppose to be that all the little screens are completely see thru or is there some material on them... Most of the screens have material but some are completely clear like ur looking out a screen window. Im not sure ifits so bad thats they are all clogged or wat??

Ive ran the cleaner thru it and cleaned it about 4 times in the sink not to much water pressure.. alot of grime came out the water is now clear to a little brown. or should i hit it with the hose

What price am i looking at for 4 strutss / He told me about 800.I just spent 700 on it and i cant afford it .

Modified by heyhi at 2:21 AM 3/5/2009
Modified by heyhi at 2:38 AM 3/5/2009

[Mkiiivwgetta]

If you calipers are frozen most likely they will stick in the closed position because the hydraulic pressure is forcing them the close but there is no pressure to return them to the normal open position. I don't think they're frozen...but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Not sure about procedure, as far as being difficult goes but I imagine it's like doing any other strut. You can find them online for a little less than 800, maybe 600. EBAY http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...wItem

As far as that Air filter goes, I say toss it. I never really clean them more than once and usually don't even do that. They're only like 40 bucks, less if you open a commercial account at your local auto part store.

[heyhi]

i was thinking the calipers world freeze with the pistopn hitting the rotor. what else could it be

Iwas also thinking of getting strutts from the junk yard..can they be visually inspected and know if they are good or on there way out. i cant afford new ones. I also dont wanna get bad ones replace them and takem back off to return them

[yodawill2000]

Just the struts are in the low 500's from Joe at IOS.

Doubt you can return struts pulled from a junkyard.

[Mkiiivwgetta]

Yeah, that's what I mean by closed postition, piston pressing the pad against the rotor. I'm not so sure as to what it is but check the brake fluid level and make sure all the fluid is there. It should never loose any fluid being a closed system. If it's low then you just have to find the leak. If it's not low then it's gonna be the master cylinder most likely.

Junkyard part sales are final. You don't want junkyard struts, save up for new.

Yoda, what is IOS?

[J30inthe sun]

... what is IOS?

Infiniti of Scottsdale, AKA http://www.infinitipartsusa.com

[Gerardjg]

any ways. The mechanic told me he had my car on the lift and with the breaks on ,the rear tires were still turning and my calipers are frozen. How can i check to be sure the calipers are frozen and not the master cylinder. I trust this guy but I wanna fix it my self.

You can open the rear brake bleeders and see if there is fluid flowing when the brakes are applied. I just rebuilt the calipers on both my Js total cost for 2 cars was around $50.00. Caliper repair kits from Rockauto.com.

[NASCARLANCE]

Is Rockauto the place that sells alot of oem parts without claiming that they are oem? What I mean is people have ordered their parts and when the parts show up they are in the Nissan bags/boxes with the Nissan stickers with the part numbers on them.

[Gerardjg]

Is Rockauto the place that sells alot of oem parts without claiming that they are oem? What I mean is people have ordered their parts and when the parts show up they are in the Nissan bags/boxes with the Nissan stickers with the part numbers on them.

I ordered radius rod bushings at rockauto Spicer brand and inside the spicerbox the bushing were packaged for Nissan