Thread: Snapped caliper pin. What next?

Today I headed out to Josh's to to an easy front pad swap and chill. Well we got to chilling alright but the driver side bottom caliper pin would not budge and I snapped it.

First off thanks to Josh for helping me work on the car and for riding me home.

Here's how it started;

Driver side pad swap went fine but I didn't want to round off the 14 slider pin bolt so I just pulled the 17mm bolts off the tq member connection. Shoulda known here.

The pass side was a pita to put back on and was kinda hung up as well and probably kinda stuck. A little persuasion and it went on. We figured it would all shake out on the test drive

The pass side got really hot when we test drove it but we didn't go that far (2-3 miles) and the fluid was not even warm. The knuckle was real hot and it was starting to transfer to the wheel. When we parked it the wheel was cool but when I went to pull the wheel back off and have a peak it was starting to warm. Kinda worried if I glazed the pads.

We decided I was being lazy anyway not lubing it all but I've generally been pretty good like that and I know I've done it twice before. So when we went to disassemble it I snapped off the pin.

For the record I hit the whole dang thing with pb blaster twice a half hour before we even started.

Now I have a pin snapped and hung up half in the tq member half in the caliper.

What exactly am I ordering and can I just run some NAPA parts rather than OEM. Obviously I want to do both sides. I would search it out but I'm very busy these days and going out of town next Saturday so I really only have one more shot to get this right.

You can buy the pin(5-7bucks) and caliper bracket. Caliper Bracket is about $25. I did the same thing on my sentra, I tried changing the pads and the passenger side lower pin was frozen. No lube in the worls was going to get it off. I had to drill through the bolt it took forever, major pita.

heh. yea what a pain in the ass.. we'll figure it out tho man no worrys, like i said if you have to go out of town before its fixed she'll have a nice warm spot to stay in the garage

i bet some hammering with the right tool will force that damn pin out..

Thanks guys. So I need another tq member? That would figure. Of course its an AD22vf.

If you got the cash and want to save yourself a headache get the torque member. lol
I bought mines from napa it was coated with what seems to be the same goldish zinc coating that is used on rotors. IDK if it's normal but it looked hella nice with my black calipers.

Yah will try to get one. I don't generally cheap out on things but its just annoying when a simple maintenance item turns up another problem. The old pads weren't really done in either and this is the kind of thing I usually take care of in advance.

When I had my own garage and could put the car up at will this type of thing never happened.

Ordered pins and caliper rebuild kit from Greg today. Wanted like 8 other things but this comes first.

May go and get a tq member from Autozone as well. There is a hub right by my house so no problem. Everyone else was almost entirely out of AD22 stuff.

dude i think we'll get that broken one out man, we'll beat that bitch like shes owes a money!

your cars all good brother sittin there lookin purdy

I'll beat it like I was its dad but sometimes you can save time buying a new part. Found two mini-sledges and my rubber mallet.

thats true man, but if its just a matter of minutes might as well jus whack it lol.. did greg give an eta on the parts?