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front brakes on my 78 mustang. "Photos"

  

chps77 -> front brakes on my 78 mustang. "Photos" (4/15/2007 9:49:05 PM)

Here I am for 2 days trying to get the cylinder to go down so I could put my new brakes on and umm it will not go down for the life of me!
I have some pics of what I was trying to do. also have a pic of the car.
this is a pic  of the car

this is the pic of what I'm trying to do

I would like to know what I'm doing wrong... and also would like to know what years of cars and makes so that if I need a new one I could easily get one.
thanks.

BTW my dad gave me this car and it was ugly brown, it was missing 1 door and no engine no tires and lots of dents. The floor and frame was mint so I went to work, so far its almost finsh with its 1st cote of primer and added the missing door and engine... its a 302 5 speed.

  
my77stang -> RE: front brakes on my 78 mustang. "Photos" (4/15/2007 10:12:42 PM)

welcome aboard!, a C clamp would probably be alot better to use than that funky contraption you have happening there..... but really, with a stuck caliper you need to just replace that thing (hell, replace both of the front ones, they are cheap enough)

i found new calipers from autozone.com for 25.99 each including a 9.00 core charge. for that price, just replace them both (trust me)

DonA -> RE: front brakes on my 78 mustang. "Photos" (6/3/2007 4:44:43 PM)

The correct way of collapsing the front cylinders is as suggested a large C clamp..

mycobraproject -> RE: front brakes on my 78 mustang. "Photos" (6/3/2007 11:03:52 PM)

sears or any tool truck ie snap on ... mac tools also has a disc brake tool to collapse the caliper works much better than the cumbersome c-clamp i paid $12.99 for mine at sears and my buddy picked his up from mac tools for i think $9.99 and both of them were us dollars for i dont know where you are at... and of course plus tax

  

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