ok so my 30 min job turned into a 5 hr job, and i missed work aaaaaah , anyways i bought a cclamp to push in the piston, BUT when i try to slide the caliper on the rotor, the outer brake pad and the mounting bracket of the caliper are too close(the inner brake pad has plenty of room, just the mounting bracket is in the way), theres not enough room for it to go on.. i need help with this asap, all tha ti wanted to do was changed out some wheel studs, but got stupid and took the caliper off of the radiator,

 

did you try taking off the wheel on the other side and just looking at it to compare. Sorry I'm just having a hard time visualizing what you are talking about.

 

no, pretty much have no tools at my gfs house, shes not even here, im using my stock jack , cant raise the other side, do you know what im talkinga bout when i say the mounting bracket?

 

whats your email, let me send you a pic from my phone showing you whats getting in my way, i need to get my car back on the road, today as been a BIG negative-$$$ day for me

 

jason@j-dogs.com

 

pic sent, let me know if you have any questions about it, hopefully you can help
thanks man

 

it looks like the piston in the caliper isn't compressing all the way. Take the cap off of the master cylinder, and try to compress it some more, it should slide right on, unless the caliper has some sort of internal problem.

 

You didn't mention front or rear... it wouldn't be the parking brake left up would it?

 

still need help, can anyone help?

 

actually, i just thought of that, its the rears and the parking brake was on, but it didnt make a difference when i took it off, does the parking brake effect the front or rears?

 

only the rears

but, my votech teacher told use that most cars with rear disc brakes, you need to twist the piston back into the caliper or something along the lines of that, I'm not sure if this applies to our Camaros, but give it a check.

Or push harder you bitch.

 

man i hammered that caliper off of there, (totally forgot about it prob being no there tight bc of the parking brake)

<--stupid ***

 

You do not need to "twist" the piston on a 4th Gen F-Body. It should push right in with the C-clamp.

 

it did push right in(when the parking brake was on, not sure if that was bad or not), what im having a problem with is that the mounting bracket, and the outer pad are too close together,the inner pad is waaaaaayfar from the outer pad, plenty of room

 

Have you looked at the exploded view of the rear caliper available on Shoebox's Tech Pages:

http://shbox.com/1/rear_caliper.jpg