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Thanks Denny and yes I'm also a fan of Hendrix lol I looked up all the reman calipers and it ca,e down to Cardone and another company. It seems Bap Geon uses Cardone so I will get 2 front calipers with brackets. I'll also plan on seeing why the brake travel is excessive hopefully they just need to be bled the only other thing I can think of is master cylinder and I don't want to go there!

Hey thanks for the informative response lot of info there. I did wish I had a bench mounted wire wheel to clean up the pins as they do on the Youtube videos. I also thought about getting a drill mounted small wire wheel for the holes in the bracket, I found local auto parts places carry the reman brackets for 60 a piece. I might just go that route unless you think remans are bad. Then I can make learning project but I will work under the watchful eye of a mech I know then I also will know that all of my wife's car brakes got their proper attention.

Hello Notice my wife's brake pedal had a lot of travel to stop the car. Removed the front wheels and saw decent pad material left but lip on the both rotors facing out and the inside had grooves in the rotor and pads. I replaced both rotors and pads (from Advance Auto dealership was closed). I noticed in both front calipers one of the pins was stuck. The other one came out with a little effort but the stuck ones took a lot of turning, pulling and some WD40 to finally get them out. Both of the stuck ones had a rubber gasket or ring at the tip with one so old it fell off. Both stuck ones has a layer of corrosion and dried lubricant on. I cleaned them off the best I could with brake cleaner, rag and wire brush and applied brake lubricant on them and installed all 4 caliper sliding pins. The good pins moved fine but the prior bad ones moved with more effort. The car still has a lot of pedal travel should I move on to bleeding the system now? Should I replace the pins only or the whole caliper? The pistons had rust on them and took some effort with the C clamp to reset them in the bore. I live in the rust belt so didn't know if it all should be replaced. If so is parts store rebuilt decent or go Lexus/Toyota?