Frozen Caliper - New Calipers All around

[chefwong]

Dunno if I recall seeing a post of frozen caliper, but I have a frozen caliper on my X.

It has seen it's fair share of snow...not Buffalo or Canada Snow, and last season was very mild. It's had 2.5 brakes flushes over the course of 48K almost worry free miles as well. 2 brake Flushes and when I installed the SS lines, brakes were bled so that's the .5 flush.

The X started a slight pulsate only when braking and I just dismissed it as a warped rotor. It was up for a brake job this season anyhow, so I paid no mine to the issue. Lo and behold.....things went downhill rapidly . I have not had a chance to look at the X until now as I threw my back out and the X was parked until I was ready to do a full brake change. Turns out the front driver side outboard side caliper is frozen. I plan to just rebuild it this weekend in conjunction with the brake job.

I've gone ahead and ordered 4 powdercoated calipers as well (with core exchange). I'll go ahead and swap all 4 of those when it comes in ....slated 3-4 weeks. Don't intend to monkey with rebuilding the remaining 3calipers but they might as well get rebuilt bearing that 1 went out on me already. Besides, it just gave me excuse to get powdercoated calipers. Just the time factor alone was worth the price of the new calipers slated.

Caliper rebuild was not on my maint. list but for u guys with higher mielage X,and live in the snow belt, just something to consider........

The rebuild kits are relatively cheap- $16ish.