Parking Brakes not working after brake caliper change

It's normal for them to do that. They will not get that far out anyway.
When they're relaxed, that is their normal position. They will only move out as
the pads and rotors wear. But only a little.

 

See post #21.

Us the NEW parts!

 

As long as the pins at the right position (one of them has a plastic ring) and the seals are not torn, they will work well. Too much grease can cause the pins not returning to relax (tight) position and cause brake pads rubbing. We do not need much grease, just enough to coat the whole surface and no grease trapped at the tip of the pin.

 

The slide pins and their boots don't have to do anything different from what you're seeing them do. It's natural for the rubber to suck in when you artificially pull on the pin: you're drawing a vacuum in there because there is a good seal between the pin, boot, and bracket, and that's the way you want it. If the boot doesn't suck in when you do that, it's making a lousy seal.

Keep in mind that normal use doesn't move those pins more than a third of a mm at a time. Tiny motions.

By "the same issue", do you mean there's still something off with the parking brake? Or just that you don't like seeing the boot suck in?

You can fix that by adjusting your expectation so that the sight of a boot sucking in is beautiful.

 

The only way to tell for sure is to check the pins on a regular basis. If you can move the pins by hand after pulling the caliper than they typically don't need any other attention. If they need a wrench or pliers to get them started moving, it's best to pull, clean and grease again. If any of your pins have rubber bushing missing, be sure to check the pin holes for bushing that have worked there way off the pins and are at the bottom of the pin holes.

Here's another brake job tube
youtu.be/mhWVYmXp_fA

 

I agree, I also noticed air sealed behaviour when I installed mine. The old front brake were badly corroded and the inner pad wear 50% faster than the outer. Since, I replaced the pads and disc at the same time with Zimmermann coated disc, it works much better, 30% more braking force during TÜV (MOT) test compared to the old brake disc/pads.

 

Many many moons ago like in 1981 79 something like that I didn't realize the boots were replaceable or at that time in the grand scheme of things you had to buy the bracket assembly the whole caliper assembly something that made it prohibitively silly so I used to just trim the messed up boots flush with the bracket clean up the pin with a rotating equal to a metal brush on the end of a drill till they were shiny metal cleaned them off with Stoddard solution grease them up and slide them right back into service with no boots because I just trimmed off the messed up what's left of them some of those cars are still on the road driving today believe it or not right in the town I still live in an old drunk drives one or two of my old cars that I gave him like 18 years ago and he's still driving them has had no issues with them either and they look like regular old Corollas You can't tell anything about any of it just looks like an old Corolla all the same color and no dents and all that. The caliper still slide like they're supposed to and he's put in like three or four sets of pads since he's had the car

 

Yeah here in the southeast United States of 2009 with factory original brakes right here at the house The brakes still look My eyeball inspection in very nice shape like a regular car's 70,000 mi brake check up if you will then if you look closer at the pads you'll notice that they're almost time and you should go ahead and be rounding up a set of pads at this time here where I am usually I just replace pads rotors re-grease pins any boots if needed which in the southeast is almost never and that's that and then if I'm lucky enough and I'm going to be doing struts and front wheel bearings then the whole front end can be apart for all these antics just one time and that's a nice thing half a day and it's all back together and everything up there is new but not going to have to be messed with while I head to 666

 

Please do have time! And please take pictures!

Or maybe a disassembly video (so they'll have less chance to say you just opened it up and took the mechanism out).

 

banjo bolt

 

Aftermarket Brake disc and pads are fine but for pads, Autozone and Advance gives liftime warranty. Autozone is the best because it only needs a phone number and national wide system.
Just don't buy anything from eBay or Amazon from unknown suppliers.
Rockauto, Amayama, AA1, Toyota dealership in eBay, Autodoc are good. Especielly for waterpump, sparkplugs, compressor, etc.

 

rock auto's stuff, like others, have really gone down hill. Really crappy chinese crap.
Someone had several calipers on their bench and just grabbed whatever was closest.

Though it could cost more, somethings are just better, and safer, to get oem.
Hard to go wrong with something right from a dealer that was designed for a specific vehicle.

I'm glad you got everything back together and working.

 

Yeah this is kind of really funny The industry is really taking a big dump in the last I don't know 15 or so years I never had problems with calipers personally I've never had any knock on whatever. But reading the horror stories here seals mounted backwards and calipers not returning and oh my God never seen any of this I hope I never have to just because that stuff is supposed to work right out of the box off the shelf whatever it is I mean calipers used to not get stuck or have any problems except when moisture was sucked up by the spongy brake fluid Dot 3 as we know it stuff sucked up water like it was a sponge from the ocean and that would cause seizures and problems and all of that but parking brakes and mechanical pieces missing out of rebuilt calipers and all this and that holy Christ I don't think I've had any of this going on with A1 cardone but I'm not saying they don't have these issues I haven't had any problems with most of their stuff including calipers and brake parts. Thank gawd

 

Just goes to show like the Porsche guy said, "I am adamant about getting the proper caliper on your car. There’s a good chance those are the calipers you have on your car" ... the factory ones, maybe with new rubber bits and hardware if needed.