Sticking rear calipers

keithyboy Posted a lot Posts: 2,884	Sticking rear calipers keithyboy @keithyboy
	Aug 2, 2011 19:41:04 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	One of the rear calipers is sticking on our S40. It makes the handbrake stay slightly on then the wheel gets hot and it alarms Mrs K. The piston moves in and out nicely and I can free the lever off with lashings of WD40 and it works fine for a while. I suspect that I'm going to have to fork out for new calipers at some point. However, a bloke I bought a car off once reckoned that soaking them in diesel over night fixed them permanently. I dismissed him as a nutter at the time but the other day someone else suggested the same approach. I'm concerned that diesel would destroy the seals leaving me no further forward. Has anyone tried it and, if so, did it work?
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grahamj Part of things Old enough to know better.... Posts: 274	Sticking rear calipers grahamj @grahamj
	Aug 2, 2011 20:05:20 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	You wanna push/screw pistons back in calipers, but firstly, release handbrake adjustment completely, re-assemble and then take up pressure in footbrake first, then reconnect handbrake cable(s) adjust and see if that helps. They can over adjust on handbrake,... check brake compensator, that both cables are pulling even..
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	Aug 3, 2011 8:24:52 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Think you're going to have to bite the bullet and change the caliper had this on a couple of cars tried freeing them off and stuff but had to change it in the end


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