Installing rear caliper
#11
04-26-2015, 07:30 PM
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Tokeland, Washington
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i used a brake spring tool. Super price on K-Tool International 70131 at ToolTopia.com it has a rounded point on one handle that you put on the place where the spring goes and it slid on there. vice grips should work with some cussing.
#12
04-26-2015, 08:34 PM
this works on the spring for the rear disc? on page 375 of the 94 service manual you provided has a better shot of that spring, its labeled #4. Kind of nervous to use a vice grip, cant afford to loose any teeth lol
#13
04-26-2015, 10:32 PM
Yup. That's the one I was thinking of. It took a lot of cussing and wondering why the hell they'd have it install on one caliper but not the other already. Gotta be careful if you use vice grips/channel locks though.
#14
04-27-2015, 09:00 PM
it would have been nice to have it already together. I knew as soon as I took it out I would have problems getting it back in. Ill have to work on her this weekend, wish me luck and thanks for the help again
#15
05-02-2015, 01:10 PM
ok so bad news for me. I bent the spring using vices. I need to replace this thing and rock auto doesn't seem to have it. Any idea where to get this thing besides a junk yard? Here is a pic of it https://www.dropbox.com/s/p2rhy1ywq3...pring.jpg?dl=0
should be lots of em at the wrecking yards around the area. pretty sure they used them on several models.
#17
05-03-2015, 10:56 AM
Anything up to '96 should work. I believe in '97 they switched to having the parking assembly inside the rotor, but it may have been '98. I have no idea how you bent that spring so much.
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