Welcome to the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club Thursday March 28, 2024
Home Forums Images WikiNASIOC Products Store Modifications Upgrade Garage
NASIOC
Go Back   NASIOC > NASIOC Subaru Models > 'Old School' Subaru Forum

Welcome to NASIOC - The world's largest online community for Subaru enthusiasts!
Welcome to the NASIOC.com Subaru forum.

You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our community, free of charge, you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is free, fast and simple, so please join our community today!

If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.







* As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 
* Registered users of the site do not see these ads. 
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 11-27-2006, 07:01 PM   #1
opus
Scooby Newbie
 
Member#: 60812
Join Date: Apr 2004
Default '86 GL E-brake

THe emergency brake hangs up on this at times. Also the right caliper. It took me forever to find out the e-brake was on the front wheels...how odd.

Brakes are looking a little low. Assuming this could be why the front is dragging. Make sense??
* Registered users of the site do not see these ads.
opus is offline   Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links
* Registered users of the site do not see these ads.
Old 11-28-2006, 01:21 AM   #2
Flowmastered87GL
WCSS Drunk
Moderator
 
Member#: 8914
Join Date: Aug 2001
Chapter/Region: NWIC
Location: Portland Oregon
Vehicle:
2005 Baja Sport
Regal Blue Pearl

Default

They were doing that on my GL.... since everything else was shot (suspension, engine, etc) I parted the car.... but had it been decent still I would have swapped the calipers out. Or at least rebuilt them. My fix while I nursed it on a while longer was to not use the e-brake so that it wouldnt lock up.
Flowmastered87GL is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2006, 12:24 PM   #3
opus
Scooby Newbie
 
Member#: 60812
Join Date: Apr 2004
Default

Whats involved taking the caliper off? I've not done one of these before. Pretty straight forward? I will do pads and turn the rotor and replace the caliper.

Doesnt the rotor come off with just 4 bolts or something like that?
opus is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2006, 03:52 PM   #4
DerFahrer
Scooby Specialist
 
Member#: 30727
Join Date: Dec 2002
Chapter/Region: South East
Location: Tampa
Default

Taking the caliper off isn't difficult. One bolt gets it to slide up away from the pads and off its bracket, two more bolts and the bracket comes off.

To remove the rotors, you have to remove the castle nut for the axle in the center (make sure you take the cotter pin out), keep the washers behind that nut with it, don't lose them, then remove those four bolts that you see holding the hub to the rotor, and then the hub will come off and then the rotor.

If your caliper(s) are okay (if your e-brake is sticking, they likely need replacing), then to reinstall them, you must TURN the caliper piston as you push it in, because of the parking brake, using needle-nose pliers or whatever. Just pushing it in with all your might will damage the caliper.
DerFahrer is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-04-2006, 04:35 PM   #5
opus
Scooby Newbie
 
Member#: 60812
Join Date: Apr 2004
Default

Okie dokie...thanks!
opus is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-14-2006, 03:41 PM   #6
gloyale
Scooby Newbie
 
Member#: 134923
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Corvallis, OR, PNW
Vehicle:
1989 GL w/96 EJ22

Default

No need to seperate hub from rotor for this proceedure. unless you are replacing them with new. Most shops can turn them with the hub attached
gloyale is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
'86 GL clutch opus 'Old School' Subaru Forum 2 05-23-2006 09:59 AM
'86 GL heater blower resistor opus 'Old School' Subaru Forum 2 11-27-2005 01:17 AM
'86 GL --> '96 Legacy alternator question pilfflip Subaru Conversions 2 01-02-2005 11:03 PM
'86 gl-10 is my tranny gone? rexspeedworthy Transmission (AT/MT) & Driveline 3 04-16-2003 08:27 AM
'86 GL Wagon won't shift gears in Drive matman23 Transmission (AT/MT) & Driveline 1 03-27-2003 12:04 AM

All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:57 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.0
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Powered by Searchlight © 2024 Axivo Inc.
Copyright ©1999 - 2019, North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club, Inc.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission
Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.