trouble removing the front brake

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

are the 13mm bolts reverse threaded, or am I just not trying hard enough? seems like all these bolts on my car are way over-tightened.

BTW: Trying to replace 2 studs, because they broke off along with the lugnuts while I was driving a few days ago...been driving my grandma's Charger ever since. lol

[Vtolds]

Should be normal threaded, GM likes to use Loctite. Get a breaker bar or a metal tube you can slip over your wrench. If memory serves me right you can if on the drivers side lay on the ground and pull down which should be loose and on the passenger side you should have to pull up or you could lay on the ground and push up like doing a bench press.

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

the way you describe is reverse threaded. but either way...the top bolt isn't budging, haven't tried the bottom yet.

[lonnie]

Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey

[cherrington17]

mine are all normal... no reverse threading here. i think your just reverse loosening them, hence why they won't come off.

[billytheman1188]

use a breaker bar. Those are on there tight because the brakes are the most important part of the car! Give it some muscle and it will come loose

[FrankTheTank]

Originally Posted by cherrington17

i think your just reverse loosening them, hence why they won't come off.

that made me chuckle pretty good.

[Redog]

Reverse way the lugnuts go on the car, since the bolts are behind the caliper. If they were reversed threaded, you would have gotten them off

[DOHC_tuner]

I've done them a few times....and they are just really tight!

[Justin081]

i just slipped a big metal pipe over the end of my ratchet and they came right off. there was no way i was budging them without the pipe.

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

lol well, I know what I have to do now....

[CactusWill]

We think you're a wimp, thats all. Put some muscle into it, you whiney little beotch

[zzyzzx]

I use a breaker bar. Specifically this one:

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1/2" Drive 25" Breaker Bar



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Except I got it for $10 on sale.

[[ion] C2]

i use a nice long steel pipe

worked nicely for my brakes that didn't seem like they could ever come off

[cherrington17]

i think i remember tapping mine free with a hammer, but after that i put a little anti-seize on them, so i don't have to kill myself getting them off again.

[Alerosaint]

elbow grease son!

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

got it off...turned out I was turning the wrong way to correct and paraphrase VTold's: bench press the driver side, pull it down on the passenger side.

and yes, liquid wrench did help.

[Midgear]

for the love of all that is holy.. make sure you put them back on SNUG.

my driver side caliper bolt (the bottom one) fell off while i was going down the highway- thought I ran over a rock.. and normally you dont use brakes while just cruisin along on an open road, so I didn't know it untill a traffic signal came up.. I hit the brakes and this wretched grinding noise filled the interior of the car.. scared the living crap out of me- babied it home and noticed my caliper was literally falling off O_o

[cherrington17]

Originally Posted by cherrington17

i think your just reverse loosening them, hence why they won't come off.

I CALLED IT!

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

call this: I accidentally tightened the brake line bolt and the head broke off. (this morning before I had a lot of light, so I was just feeling around) and now I'm letting my brake fluid drip into a cup so I can take the caliper back off again to fix it.