My bolts that hold my calipers are free. They wont come off WHAT THE HELL DO I DO???????????ANY ADVICE WILL BE APPRECIATED

 

Explain it alittle better, Do you mean that the bolts that hold your calipers are stuck???

 

so they are free but they wont come off?

 

did you mean stripped, maybe?

 

Loose, gone, stuck

 

Used properly, english is a powerful and descriptive language.

 

Maybe he means he took the bolts out but the caliper wont come off. Take a big azz screwdriver jam it between the rotor and caliper and ply, dont know if this helps?



Ahh can you explain wtf is going more clearly???

 

but......It seldomly ever happens here....

 

QFT

10 char.

 

Sorry for the bad explination. Ok Im trying to take off my caliper because i wanna replace my rotos. you guys know the two bolts the hold the caliper in place over the rotor. These are free. I try to unscrew them but they will not unscrew from their current position. What in you opinion needs to be done?? I tryed to pry out the bolts while unbolting them at the same time but no good. Has anyone had experience with this mess???

 

What does free mean in your opinion?

 

Ok, So the bolts are turning but not backing out, Correct?

 

post 13 and we are still trying to figure out what exactly he is asking. nice progress.

 

yes

 

The smaller or larger bolts?

 

First suggestion,
If you have a Punch and can see the other end of the bolt, "lightly" tap it out. Don't use to much force so that you don't damage the caliper. After a couple of taps, try to unscrew it again.

 

haha, some new threads in the mount are gonna look cool. as for the english lesson, saying "seldomly ever happens here" = bad english. we like to say "seldom happens here".

so it spins free and doesnt back out, this is the bolt from the mount to the caliper...try pulling the caliper away from the bolt ie: <caliper---bolt> while unscrewing it. it sounds like the bolt is in past the threads and just needs to be pulled back enough for the threads to catch.

 

could be worse....I look down at my wheel the other day (front right) and see that the upper caliper mounting bolt (smaller one) is COMPLETELY MISSING. GONE. Caliper had fallen down about 1" but not enough to hit the inside of the wheel. No idea how long it's been like that

thankfully, Joel (puppetmaster) had an extra bolt about a mile away

 

sounds like it was cross-threaded and somebody forced it on there with an impact and stripped the whole thing.

what you should do is use a vise-grip wrench, lock it on the top of the bolt, and turn and pull at the same time.

 

It doesn't even look right ... Scary that people do this to other peoples brakes.

 

scary that people are stupid enough to do that to brakes...period. then, if it does happen, just leave it.

 

its scary how much stupid stuff techs do these days. al lthe yacare about is gettign the car in and getting it out the fastest way possible and quality doesnt even exist.

 

use vicegrip and pull them out........

 

It sounds like your having problems with the smaller bolts, but ALL four bolts, including the two larger ones need to be removed to get the caliper off.

 

how come / since when all 4???

 

Well if he wants to replace the rotor the second set has to come off to remove that secondary frame. I assume he is going to replace the rotor if hes doing any brake work. Maybe a bad assumption?

 

well we dont know if he is replacing the rotor. we still dont know what he is trying to replace

 

I understand. We still dont even know what the issue was the first two bolts! LOL

 

I am replacing the rotors and pads why else would i have checked right??

 

cause you dont replace the rotors everytime you replace the pads...
PS: did you get it or not?

 

maybe he's swapping in a Dana 44 or something... lifting it... installing lockers... Oh Sh^t! Wrong message board... thought I was on www.therangerstation.com lol

 

glad you decided to be useless on this thread and not an extinct one.