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Do you have to take the brake calipers off to replace the pads?
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∙ 9y ago
On about 70% of Automobile applications the caliper is removed completly.
On about 25% of cars the caliper is designed to have one bolt/slide pin removed and swung out of the way.
The rest have a system where a pin or retainer is removed and the pads slide out of the caliper. This is most common on 4 and 6 piston calipers from High Performance manufacturers. It takes me about fife minutes per brake including jacking, removing wheel replace pads reassemble and tourque wheel nuts on my WILLWOOD brakes.
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