Look here if you plan on doing your rear brakes yourself!

[Gcustoms]

It was alot of fun trying to do the rear stabilizer links with urethane bushings and the rear brakes at the same time. The stabilizer links I had removed a couple days before so since then the car has just been sitting in my school's parking lot. I get the links lined up in the swaybar and control arm, push the bolt through and... of crap... i can't thread the bolt on. So my buddy B-roy decides to let the jack down-the stabilizer on a piece of wood. Of course he lets it down too quickly, I thought my nice new urethane bushing were f***. they werent but it pressed the bushings into the retainers so the nut was able to thread on the bolt. We thought after that - nothing else could go wrong.

WRONG! my rear brakes were seized on there like nothing I've ever seen, after a hard 20 minutes of prying and pulling trying to remove the caliper we finally managed to crack enough rust off to remove it. Fine, we remove the old pads, remove and clean the clips, remove the brake assembly bracket to remove the rotor. BAM rotor's seized on there, we found a square piece of steel heavy enough to dislocate the rotor, it worked! We lubed the pads, clips, sliders/guide pins, put the backing plate on the pads we thought we were good to go. NOPE - it's a self adjusting piston so as you compress the piston something has to turn it in order for it to go anywhere. FUUUCK, So there we are, chillin in a parking lot, it's getting dark, I have $400 worth of tools and equipment and none of those tools happen to be any use at that peticular time. Good thing the custodians were working and happened to hear our violent knocks on the door, he let us in and we found a c-clamp with an 18mm bolt on the circular end pad, so we figure if we can keep tension on the on the piston and turn that bolt simultaniously it might turn the piston. HOLY CRAP SOMETHING WENT WELL!!! it worked like a beauty. LET THIS BE A LESSON TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO DO THEIR OWN BRAKES, USE THE SEARCH BUTTON ON NICOCLUB FIRST LOL

Anyway, long story short, the hot blonde asked for my number.

[krash]

actually, you don't have to press the piston and turn it at the same time. You just have to turn it. Needle nose pliers work fine.

[Gcustoms]

actually, you don't have to press the piston and turn it at the same time. You just have to turn it. Needle nose pliers work fine.

no s***? oh well either way, their on there and they work really well! i made sure of that LOL

[krash]

hahah, good work man. Working somewhere that you don't own, with time constraints is definitely stressful.

[Gcustoms]

yeah, especially when your working with a know-it-all co-op student at a gm dealership :|

[smitty41393]

yeah dude there is a tool for that i forget what its called but i did my rear brakes and used the tool( it was my buddys) worked like a charm gets the job done sooo fast. its like a huge screw with a handle on the end and has a attatchement on the end that fits into the slots on the piston .

[Gcustoms]

yeah dude there is a tool for that i forget what its called but i did my rear brakes and used the tool( it was my buddys) worked like a charm gets the job done sooo fast. its like a huge screw with a handle on the end and has a attatchement on the end that fits into the slots on the piston .

yeah I found that i need that tool when we got the entire thing ripped apart XD

[Dattebayo]

All you needed to do was use a BFH, BFSD and some needle nose. Everyone already knows this. WHy didn't you?

[Gcustoms]

dattebayo, i've never done brakes on an s13 before, i wouldn't have figured that 17 years ago they would have been using these pistons... kinda surprised and confused me all at the same time, i know now though (y)

[krash]

Shlong Detector?