guess who learned what a stuck slide pin does on fresh brakes today?

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TheBassDrops@reddit

Big off. Every brake job you should remove the pins entirely. I like to clean the holes they live in with a bore brush before I liberally lubricate the pins and put everything back nicely

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pv2smurf@reddit

Just be sure to use 100% silicone paste and NOT petroleum based (axle bearing) grease

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TheBassDrops@reddit

I like ceramic brake lube a lot too but just depends what I have on hand! Should have also specified to clean the pin holes with brake clean or acetone before using the bore brush too

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gatormax@reddit

This sounds like a consent conversation Bender would have.

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Squidking1000@reddit

***Come on, it’s just like making love. Y’know; left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor.***

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funkymonkey1002@reddit

For the cost at this point I usually order a set of new pins+rubber when ordering the pads/rotors.

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AKA_Squanchy@reddit

Oooooh, I don’t clean the holes just the pin and re grease. I should do that!

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Navi_Professor@reddit (OP)

it is a lesson learned and i am willing to fess up to my mistakes.

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TheFredCain@reddit

For your next trick put way too much grease in the hole so it creates a piston effect and totally prevents the brakes from working.

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IISerpentineII@reddit

Jesus, how much grease did you use to learn that lesson? I use a good bit of grease, but I've never had that problem.

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It happens. Makes it fun to pull the pin out to fix it when it does too. Doesn't really take as much as you think. My theory is it happens when people just stick the tube in the hole and squeeze instead of wiping it on the pin. I've only had to deal with the diagnosis/aftermath.

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ImportanceUnique8533@reddit

I've seen it done.....because I had to fix someone else's " work". I don't get it, because brakes are so important, and the least difficult maintenance to perform......other than Blinker Fluid. Then you gotta know a thing or two, about a thing or two 😉

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hydrogen18@reddit

don't most brakes just use only the piston side off the pads when you do that? one of my friends BMW did this long ago & it basically wore down the inside of the rotor only.

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PM_ME_UR_SPACECRAFT@reddit

i always repeatedly slide the pin in the bore back and forth and spin it after greasing, to make sure that the grease gets everywhere it should. has the side effect of proving to me that it has its full range of motion, and pushes out any excess grease. worked every time so far

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Stag_GT@reddit

Exactly, me too

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BannytheBoss@reddit

I had something similar happen to a set of brakes I did... I guess I didn't fully seat the rubber seal on the rib and it allowed water to get in and wash out the lube (Toyota pin lube). The pin ended up rusting and looking like what OP posted. The EXTREMELY odd thing about this was that the pin this happened to was on the driver side caliper. The passenger side caliper is the one that actually stuck due to a slide pin. The grease was perfectly fin in both of those pins and still looked like it was in good shape. I have no clue why that caliper locked in place and the driver side did not. The rotors were new when I did the brake job but it wore out the inside of the passenger rotor so much that it could not be turned!

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ExcitementNo4167@reddit

We just gonna ignore that scissor jack holding the car up?

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jimbofranks@reddit

Nah, good catch. I see the safety wheel and imagine that the other three wheels are on the ground. Probably what I would have done as a younger Jimbo to be honest.

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carsonwade@reddit

Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. Git er done and all that

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jimbofranks@reddit

Oh yeah, I agree. Safety tire and three wheels on the ground if you got to do it that way. It beats running into someone because your brakes are pre faded.

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Navi_Professor@reddit (OP)

work parking lot...only option i got. shoved the spare and off tire under the car. wasnt going to drive home with the brakes like this

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ImportanceUnique8533@reddit

You have my support......fixed cars the girls drove that worked in my company's parking lot 3 or 4 times. Hung around until management left, then got to work. Then, after 20 years of marriage, finally my father in law let me rescue him, and his car in the Detroit Diesel parking lot. He called in for a Starter, and Alternator, and I brought my tools, and we were out and on the road in just over half an hour. Parking lot maintenance..... Stealth Engineering Practices 😉

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Wizdad-1000@reddit

You do what ya gotta do. I’ve swapped a starter out on a 69 Olds without jacking the car up, in an Greyhound bus depot in Lloydminster Alberta and it was -30C. Threw some cardboard down and wiggled my skinny butt under that car. 🤣

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ExcitementNo4167@reddit

Totally valid point. Previous statement revoked.

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BabiesatemydingoNSW@reddit

Years ago when I was replacing the brakes on my Jetta diesel I had to heat that bastard up with a torch to get it to come out. I made damn sure that thing was lubed and went back in though.

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milkh0use@reddit

1. Be extremely careful heating these. They're essentially big bullets stuck in their barrel, and you're making the packed grease expand with the heat. It can kill you if you're standing in its way when it breaks free. 2. The #1 reason for this to happen isn't the rods running dry, it's using the wrong type of grease. It makes the rubber swell, and then it can come out of its groove on the pin and get stuck.

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BabiesatemydingoNSW@reddit

Interesting, thanks.

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Navi_Professor@reddit (OP)

i had to use a heat gun and a hammer, but this has convinced me to get the 2kw inverter i have working in this thing

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Kitchen-Isopod7602@reddit

i also just learned this😭 replaced my brakes 4,000 miles ago and my FR is fine but my FL became metal on metal and destroyed my new rotors.

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nova_206@reddit

Did my brakes just the other day, also had a seized slide pin. Had to bolt just the caliper bracket back onto the knuckle so i could bash the pin out with a flathead and a mallet 💀 didn’t have any new pins laying around so I cleaned it and greased it. It’s not perfect but it works until I have some time to replace it

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CarGullible5691@reddit

That should have been cleaned and coated with high temperature silicone grease

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ImportanceUnique8533@reddit

Makes you wonder....what created the problem? Dissimilar Metals in close contact? Repeated Heating and Cooling Cycles? Maintenance Indifference ( Pins should removed and regreased on every brake change....not just reinstalled)? Or , just using the wrong Lube?......or some Combination of all of the above. It just sucks when you pull off the tire, and now it's your problem. Never had this issue with any of my Rigs......but I'm so handy.....I'm the relative or Neighbor, that these albatross seem to flock to.

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Twisted-Biscuit@reddit

You just reminded me to order new slide pins. And by "reminded" I mean scared.

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Daverocker1@reddit

"Slide pin" is used loosely here.

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MixedWithFruit@reddit

Grind pin.

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sevenhazydays@reddit

The “ are doing some real heavy “sliding” here!

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sevenhazydays@reddit

The “ are doing some tea heavy “sliding” here.

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Ngoscope@reddit

More like slid pin.

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ThanksALotBud@reddit

Guess who needs to learn that slide pins and boots should be checked and greased appropriately with every brake change?

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dsmerritt@reddit

The joys of floating calipers. New pins, clean bores and bushings, the right grease. Good luck. Frequently there are kits with all the relevant parts and lube, worth it

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404-skill_not_found@reddit

Doh!

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teeksquad@reddit

Lesson learned to make sure all pins are clean and moving right before reassembly

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