Always replace calipers in pairs. I didn't once and had a terrible pull....
Has the car sat a lot? What you're looking at sounds an awful lot like my 240D last fall. It'd sat nearly a year and it was a BEAR to work on... -Curt Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:14:31 -0400 From: Allan Streib <[email protected]> Subject: [MBZ] Brake fiasco (was: grrr. siezed caliper) To: Mercedes Discussion List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Well after accepting defeat at trying to find a rear caliper locally on a Sunday, I moved on to the fronts. BOTH calipers had rusted, siezed inboard pistons. And looking at the front rotors they seem to be going the way of the rears (look OK on the front side but badly rusted on the inboard surface (probably because the pistons are siezed and they're not getting any braking action on that side). So Monday it's going to be an order for new front rotors and calipers from Rusty. Fronts mean I need to repack the front bearings... ugh. I'm thinking I might as well replace that other rear caliper too, all the calipers are the same age (I was thinking two years but it might be three) just to avoid problems. I've never had calipers sieze up like that before on any other car, foreign or domestic. Wondering why these all went bad so quickly. Allan -- 1983 300D -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090831/e4f9c95a/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
