I am doing a front brake upgrade on my 96. I got the parts off a 2000. When I started to tear apart the Calipers to powder coat and rebuild them I found that two of the four sliders in the caliper brackets where frozen. Both where rusted bad and they broke. Of course one in each bracket. Does anyone know where I can find these brakets? I can find the ones for the rear online. Tomorrow I will try to machine out the sliders but I am not to hopful. Machinig fused steel out of aluminimum does not always go real well.

 

This is what I am up against. The shinny round thing in the middle of all that rust is the broken off slider.

 

heat it up and spray it good with penitration oil. the bracket is aluminum? can u get a punch at it from the backside?

 

Its not a thru hole.

 

i think u are going in the only direction u can. drill it out, very carefully. could spray it down and try a ez out.

 

I am thinking I need to find other ones. Look how nice and shine the outside rim of the hole is on the other side of the brakets. There is a dust seal that goes around that. I have been soaking the bracket for 2 days and it still looks like a pitted mess on the outside. Hopfully I can find a good one at the local U-pull it yard. I have had no luck finding them new.