Boiling Brake Fluid

Hachiroku wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ae86.gts:

When sliders stick, they stick forever until you fix it. That's rust at work, son.

You might also have a sticking caliper piston, which means a rebuild (fun!).

Vise Grips on the end. Wiggle and pull (push). In Kanada I have to live with this as a yearly ritual.

Can I move to California now? Excessive Mexicans are preferable to excessive snow, believe me.

I've already removed the caliper from the rotor once (but not from the car...) and tried to unstick the slider with (ugh) a hammer and lots of penetrating oil. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes it slides reluctantly.

You sure about that, Teg?

Just think, I have had some really nice Toyotas, and if I lived in So. Cal, I'd STILL have them!

Paging TeGGer, Please pick up the 'Canadian Rust' Colored Courtesy Phone...

He's mentioned in the past that cleaning up those brake slider pin bolts is a waste of your time and effort - just buy new ones.

I'll bet they're yellow irridite or cadmium plated (or something else slightly exotic) and once the plating is gone they'll rust like crazy no matter what you do. And near the brakes, grease is out.

I'm glad I don't live in rust country. ;-) It's nice living where you regularly see 40-year-old-plus cars being used as daily drivers, and they're not in imminent danger of the body splitting in two.

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I wouldn't use a drill bit. Try wrapping emery cloth around a smaller diameter bolt and running it through. Use emery cloth on the slider bolt and when re-lubing, use anti-seize or wheel bearing grease. Don't bother with lithium grease - it will just melt and run off.

While you're under there, I'd give some serious thought about flushing out the old brake fluid.

Good luck!

My drummer suggested the same thing with the emery cloth. Seems to ne the way to go.

Yeah, I think this is a given, also...

Hachiroku wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ae86.gts:

Do you have the kind where there's a metal sleeve surrounded by a rubber sleeve, with the whole works inside a hole in the caliper body?

Well, Philip tells me otherwise, so...

Yeah. I'd probably still have my '75 Corolla.

Derald wrote in news:wLDEe.3295$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:

That's Charles Pisano.

Thanks!

No, this time it wasn't Charles, it was me!

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hachiroku wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@Trueno.GTS:

Are you any relation to Steve Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton-Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser III?

Not at all...