Loaded and Unloaded Calipers, what is the difference?
08-18-2003, 01:06 AM
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Drifting
Re: Loaded and Unloaded Calipers, what is the difference? (steve40th)
Loaded calipers come with pads, shims, wear indicators, etc installed.
In a nutshell, you take off your old caliper bolts, unfasten the brake hose, fasten the new caliper on, connect the hose, bleed, and go.
Unloaded calipers generally vary, but are always padless. I say "vary" because rear calipers are sometimes sold with parking brake hardware for cars that have a spring and lever setup on them.
Good lcuk, -Matt
In a nutshell, you take off your old caliper bolts, unfasten the brake hose, fasten the new caliper on, connect the hose, bleed, and go.
Unloaded calipers generally vary, but are always padless. I say "vary" because rear calipers are sometimes sold with parking brake hardware for cars that have a spring and lever setup on them.
Good lcuk, -Matt
08-18-2003, 01:16 AM
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Re: Loaded and Unloaded Calipers, what is the difference? (HighHopes85)
Thanks, I am going to get ahold of Jeff Kopp at Superior and see how the rear Grand Sport Caliper comes. If it is a simple as bolting it on, without allot of hassle. My calipers have 130000 miles on them, and they are ugly :D
08-18-2003, 01:27 AM
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Re: Loaded and Unloaded Calipers, what is the difference? (steve40th)
You're welcome.
A little bit of clarification on the rears.
On my 85, I have a drum-style parking brake that is used...so I don't have any "spring and lever" attached to the caliper itself. It is just the caliper, with a normal piston.
Some of the rear caliper setups that are used on various cars do not have a parking shoe, but instead use a self-adjusting piston as well as a spring, a bracket, etc. Those styles generally have a flat piston face and 2 nubs that allow you to twist the piston back in the bore.
[RANT]I can't tell you how many of those that people try to buy when they don't need to because they don't RTFM so they can re-use them.[/RANT] They try to force the piston back in with a C-clamp, break the clamp, get out the hammer, then destroy the caliper and assume it is seized.
I doubt the GS caliper is the self-adjusting variety, so if you ask about parking brake hardware coming on the caliper, they might think you are nuts :D
-Matt
A little bit of clarification on the rears.
On my 85, I have a drum-style parking brake that is used...so I don't have any "spring and lever" attached to the caliper itself. It is just the caliper, with a normal piston.
Some of the rear caliper setups that are used on various cars do not have a parking shoe, but instead use a self-adjusting piston as well as a spring, a bracket, etc. Those styles generally have a flat piston face and 2 nubs that allow you to twist the piston back in the bore.
[RANT]I can't tell you how many of those that people try to buy when they don't need to because they don't RTFM so they can re-use them.[/RANT] They try to force the piston back in with a C-clamp, break the clamp, get out the hammer, then destroy the caliper and assume it is seized.
I doubt the GS caliper is the self-adjusting variety, so if you ask about parking brake hardware coming on the caliper, they might think you are nuts :D
-Matt
08-18-2003, 01:41 AM
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Re: Loaded and Unloaded Calipers, what is the difference? (HighHopes85)
I am in to the "Sailor Proof" products. I want to be able to take i tout of a box, unbolt the old, bolt on the new, and bleed brakes. Simple, and is it possible?
