Front brakes sticking

Bill UK · 05-18-2008, 10:53 PM

Like Busted Knuckles said the slider can seize up, I had to remove the whole calliper and work on it in the vice. Crowbars, scaffold tubes and a big club hammer to get mine apart. I think someone had used anti- seize copper grease before, which went dry and tuned into cement. I've had allot of success for years with Castrol Moly Grease for the slides which is a high melting point grease. Toyota do a calliper seal repair kit part # 04479-14100 this contains all the seals, rubber boots and a sachet of lithium glycol grease for the pistons. The seal kit is for both front callipers. Its also worth buying 4 bleeding nipples, I found one of mine had rusted so bad the small hole at the bottom had rusted/sealed over, making it useless for bleeding. I've often wondered what the rubber cap over a bleeding nipple was for, when what ever went down the hole would come out eventually when you bled the brakes. It obviously stops water going inside and rusting the inside wall, which results in the small hole at the bottom becoming sealed over.

Note the part # is for one nipple.

05-18-2008, 10:53 PM	#3
Bill UK AEM EMS Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK Posts: 891	Like Busted Knuckles said the slider can seize up, I had to remove the whole calliper and work on it in the vice. Crowbars, scaffold tubes and a big club hammer to get mine apart. I think someone had used anti- seize copper grease before, which went dry and tuned into cement. I've had allot of success for years with Castrol Moly Grease for the slides which is a high melting point grease. Toyota do a calliper seal repair kit part # 04479-14100 this contains all the seals, rubber boots and a sachet of lithium glycol grease for the pistons. The seal kit is for both front callipers. Its also worth buying 4 bleeding nipples, I found one of mine had rusted so bad the small hole at the bottom had rusted/sealed over, making it useless for bleeding. I've often wondered what the rubber cap over a bleeding nipple was for, when what ever went down the hole would come out eventually when you bled the brakes. It obviously stops water going inside and rusting the inside wall, which results in the small hole at the bottom becoming sealed over. Note the part # is for one nipple.