Help, I can't take the rear caliper off
 

I am trying to remove my rear caliper off so i can change the brake pad, but it wont seem to come off when i take two of the bolt in the back. The front caliper was easy to remove but not the rear. Why is that? please help me

The little nub on the back of the inboard brake pad seems to hang up on the caliper piston, and this will prevent it from being removed easily. This is compounded by the fact that the rear calipers are bad about freezing up due to dirt and corrosion.

Sometimes you have to take a large screwdriver and pry the caliper off the pads. After the bolts are removed of course.

Have you disengaged the e-brake mechanism spring and related items?

You dont have to disengage it, just make sure your ebrake is off and the caliper should come right off.

Hmmmmmm. I just did a brake job 1 month ago and I had to disengage the e-brake spring and unhooked a thing or two. Only then could I get the rear calipers off. Sorry, don't know the technical name of the parts......

you have to remove the park brake cable caliper bracket (one bolt), then slip the cable off the park brake spring (on caliper), and remove the 2 caliper mounting bolts. caliper should come off now.

As long as the parking brake isn't engaged, then the caliper should come off. Sometimes the caliper and pads are on the rotor tight, so tapping the caliper with a hammer should loosen it up. I do mean tapping, nothing harder.

all the above should get it off, it shouldnt be that hard.

THANKS A LOT GUYS!!! . .i finally got the rear caliper off. . thank you for all the help.

I had the same troubles with mine, it was quite a pain. But then I finall did it! Good job.

Hi,
Yea I just did one side (rear pass) it was frozen. Bought a fully loaded caliper.
Old one came out easy and the new one went in easy too.
I read that frozen calipers are common on this car. 133,000 miles should I just go head and replace the other one too?
-quadcells

I think people not knowing that they must be turned to press them in is more common than the calipers getting frozen. :hide: Many may disagree with what I'm about to say, but yes you should replace calipers as a pair, it is highly recommended that anything you ever due to brakes you also do to the other side. I learned that years ago at school, and a perfect example is the I30t that I just put an engine in that pulls to the left while braking, somebody did rotors & pads on both sides and a caliper on only the right side........ hummmm......... Oh and the pads that come with loaded calipers are usually junk, oem nissan ftmfw, sure they are a little pricey but they stop excellent, and last a long time with minimul dust.

I agree both should be replaced if you are going to replace one.