brake piston

[Teg LS]

Okay, so I'm trying to replace my back brakes, I've been messing qith the piston for an hour now, it goes out, but when I try to put it back in, it goes in then will keep spinning, there is not enough room for the outer brake pad to fit. What am I doing wrong? This hasn't happened when I've worked on other cars,

 

[afroman18]

Replace it the caliper is bad

 

[Teg LS]

Okay, thanks, the piston comes out, but the caliper seems to not move in or out, was hoping that wasn't it, ha, thankyou, you've saved me numerous hours,

 

[integra_mack]

hate to rob this thread, but im changing my front pads for the first time and i cant get the caliper piston to push back so i can slide the caliper back on
any help would be greatly appreciated

not sure if i have the same problem

 

[teg cruzr]

You gotta compress the piston in to the caliper before you can get the caliper and new pads back on the rotor, a C clamp is what I use. Just make sure you don't have fluid coming out of the resivior.