I am attempting to change my brake pads starting with the rears first. I can't for the life of me get the rear caliper bolts to even budge. At first I thought I had it moving turns out I just ended up cracking the socket ( Lesson don't buy $10 socket sets. Seemed like a good idea at the time.) I moved onto some wrenches and nothing. I was putting more effort into it than what I needed to take my lug nuts off. Next to the air rachet with the impact sockets, no snapping this time but the stupid bolt still won't move. I've just sprayed a bunch of WD-40 on the bolt to let it sit for a while. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

 

Dumb question but have to ask this just in case. Are you turning the bolts the correct way? The bolts are facing the opposite direction of you so you need to account for that. I've caught myself doing this a few times before and actually tightened the damn thing instead of lossening it. My other is idea is that your bolts are just really rusted so you might want to use PB-Blaster or Liquid Wrench. Good luck.

 

Haha, yup I was double checking a few times righty tighty, lefty lucie ... opposite of what I did to remove the lugs. Also I figured that on the pneumatic socket wrench I just set to reverse so that it should be the correct direction. I am going to look for some of that Liquid wrench stuff. Thanks.

 

u got it olredy?

 

I had the same problem. I started using a wrench but could only get so much leverage to remove the bottom bolts. The top bolts I had to use a socket wrench that was a bit longer and that freed it up. I didnt use the any WD40.

 

Update: Got some liquid wrench and a couple of squirts , some tapping as per instructions, some more squirts and after the 2nd attempt with the pneumatic socket wrench and finally got the damn bolt loose. Anyone that is attempting to change their brake pads, I definately recommend that you save yourself some grief and get some of Liquid wrench and spray a bunch on the bolts before you begin.

Secondly my dealer (Agincourt Nissan/Infiniti) is a bunch of damn dirty liars, they told me that my rear pads were down to 3mm and that was the recommended service level. However the "good news" was that I was covered under the brake warranty for parts etc, but they would need to charge me $70CDN to "lubricate" my brakes. I told them they are going to charge me $70 basically an hours worth of work just to apply some brake quiet, no thanks. I checked the service manual and the recommended service level was down to 2.6mm.
The kicker is when I did finally get the caliper out and looked at the pads they looked pretty thick. A quick measure with a ruler and they were at ~5mm. Arg!! So I ended up just cleaning the pads and re-applying some brake quiet. I guess my ProjectMu pads will wait till spring before they go on.

Thanks again guys.

 

Mine work fine after the front rotors and pads were replaced (22Kmiles) by the dealership with supposedly better pads and rotors under the same warranty.
For free, I can't knock it. Next time around I will use something better, when I have to pay for it out of my own pocket.