Can anyone give me the rundown on how to do this?

 

Basically, remove the lower retaining bolt from the floating pin, and lift the caliper up, swinging it out of the way. The rear pads are held in place by two metal brackets/clips. Remove the pads, and also the clips...clean the clips if not replacing them.

Use either a rear caliper piston tool, or a set of needle nose pliers to turn the piston back into the caliper - you do NOT press them in like front calipers.

Once the pistons are bottomed out, put the clips backm in, install the new pads, then reassemble the calpier.

 

How do you use the pliers to reset that piston?

 

there are 4 little notches in the piston just stick the tips of the neddles nose in the notches and turn it clockwise.The first time I changed mine I didn't know they turn and tried to push them back in and broke it that was the hard way to learn that.I just put new pads on the back of mine yesterday and it took 20 minutes a side.

 

I've got most of the piston down but the last millimeters don't seem to want to go down. I turn and turn and turn it and it just doesn't seem to be going down. Is this normal or am I just trippin'?

 

You know that is one thing I never looked at i just turned it till it looked like the pads would go on if it wouldn't then I would turn it a little more till it fit lol

 

Yes, when the piston bottoms out on that shaft, it will just turn...to prove it, turn the piston the other direction, and it will back out again...

 

I did it a week ago and the last caliper seemed like it took twice as long to go down as the first. It took twenty (more lik eight) minutes to get that thing all the way down.