Hello again. Last week I changed my brake pads and may have cracked one of the pistons inside of the calipers. Anyways, now I have brake fluid leaking out during hard brakes and need a new caliper ASAP. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Ill post up pictures of my damage when I get home. But I'm thinking of one of the ones from autoparts warehouse, a remanufactured one. Then change it out and bleed the brakes and Ill be set.

Thanks for the help in advance.

 

if you cant wait, any of the autoparts places (autozone, advance, o'reillys) carry calipers for our trucks. How did you crack the piston?

 

I had my passenger side caliper fail on my also. I replaced it with a Cardone caliper. It worked great for 6 months, then failed, piston cracked.

I went and bought a Mopar caliper, which is produced by Wagner, The piston size between the two is pretty substantial, and the Wagner version is much beefier.

 

Well I cracked the piston because on the old pads, the little pegs that hold the shims on were sticking out to far and got caught on the inside of the pistons and when I tried taking off the caliper with a tad bit off force I ended up with the priblem I have now... lol. I would like to get one close to the oem sixe so I don't have to replace both.
Also, anyone have a guide on how to bleed brakes with one person. Lol

 

I bought this! Best one person brake bleeder I have ever owned.

http://www.harborfreight.com/brake-f...der-92924.html

It is worth ever penny

 

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Hopefully the pic works from my phone but that's what happened since I didn't compress the pistons before pulling off the caliper...

 

wow....must have used a ton of force...lol

 

Not really, but I could be wrong. The metal seemed very weak.. but ill change it out one day soon.