[warrior86]

Originally Posted by mcqueen It looks good bro. But what do you mean the calipers were hard to get back on? Did you take the brake lines off and everything or did you just pull them off to the point you could freely move them around? If you don't compress the pistons in the calipers they can be a little tricky to get back on, but nothing a hammer and some patience can't fix. I personally picked up a $20 caliper compression tool kit from Harbor Freight and it worked great for my calipers that weren't seized.

Why didn't i know of this information before hand? haha. Well originally I was just gonna paint them, but i really wanted them done this weekend and i couldn't ind the yellow paint locally so I went with VHT yellow caliper spray pant. After I unbolted the calipers and went to take them off, they did come off but def needed some strength to get them off but it worked. I didn't disconnect the brake line so i just sate the caliper up on a few items so i can paint it and laid plastic bags and newspaper to protect my car from over spray.

After I left everything to dry I figured ok, ill just put the calipers back on now... thats where i fucked the first one up. The brake pads kept falling out of place and it seemed as though the caliper was just not going back on and i started panicking because it came off, so it must go back on but how!? luckily with enough force I was able to get it back on. And i figured the front ones were gonna be easier because the brake pads never came out. But I was wrong. It was a bitch!!

All in all, im never doing that again haha.. ill just paint them next time. And after I was able to get every caliper back on and bolted back, I was like oh god, my wheels and brakes better work. Luckily everything did. I am going to touch the calipers up on the weekend like I said. Basically spraying the spray paint into a little cup, and using this sponge type of brush, not the one with bristles, to correct the caliper paint job. I painted the bracket black with that type of brush since i actually had black paint (caliper) from my old mustang laying around. IT went on BEAUTIFULLY! I highly recommended that type of brush.

I can take a picture of it for anyone that wants to know what brush I am talking about. You can find them at Walmart for like $0.50.