Brake system issue...

[joyridin']

Originally Posted by hotrodyankee

joyridin, I just put on the Eldorado calipers on my car, and have the same problem. I am looking to adjust the brakes not the e-brake. when you say to back off the e- brake until the lever on the caliper is as far back as it will go, do you mean the lever stop on the caliper, or the other direction? Also is this done on the car? Any help explaining this to me will be a great help. Thanks, Mike.

If they are new calipers, you probably will not have a problem. First, the caliper piston needs to be all way to the bottom. If the caliper is new, we can assume this is the case since you probably would not have gotten the caliper with pads over the rotor. If not, you need to remove the caliper and pads and screw the piston all the way down until it bottoms out. Next, the easiest thing to do is actually leave the e-brake cable unhooked. Bleed the brakes and remove all air. Then pump the pedal hard. There is a ratchet mechanism in the piston that will ratchet the piston out and take up the extra play giving you a good pedal. After that is done, then hook up the e-brake cables. If you have the e-brake adjusted too high, the rotors will not turn. Just back off the adjustment. Sometimes you might have to drive the car a bit to get the pistons to ratchet out if there is a pretty big gap to take-up.