Help Rear Caliper Rebuild Boot won't fit

Update:

Ok after reading some sites I figured I could cut a plastic cup and shape it like a funnel and slide the piston in as a shoe horn.

Now the next question is does anyone know what kind of snap ring pliers I can buy at Sears that will help me take the rear caliper apart?

Ones that I need are like this:

googamooga wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com:

You could also just lube the boot with silicone grease while making sure your hands and the exterior of the boot are dry.

In any case, the piston should always be given a light coating of silicone grease before assembly. This will help keep it free for along time.

Sears may not cut it. You need to try somebody like NAPA, or one of those Snap-On, MAC, or Matco tool trucks.

You wanna do just what I wanna do. And I have not yet got around to finding those snap ring pliers deep enough to grab that snap ring properly.

Warning: If that snap ring slips off the pliers at any time while withdrawing it from the bore, it will damage the bore, so the stakes are high here! Have you thought about how you're going to hold the cup and spring down while you release the snap ring? There's a lot of spring tension there. Plus you need an air compressor to pop the parking brake piston out of the bore.

I bought a caliper from the wreckers for ten bucks so I could experiment, which is how I know all this. That's one complex little beast there.

My left rear caliper heats up about 10F hotter than the right (115 versus

Tegger

Man the real funny thing is that the rear calipers were in good shape, I was just going to do a thorough job by doing all 4 but I think I learned my lesson. I think I will just put the dust boot back on and wait til the rear calipers fail, then i will buy a remanufactured one.