Trying to do the rear brakes on a 96 Regal. The shop manual says to pull the sleeve bolt, rotate caliper to clear rotor, and slide caliper toward vehicle to remove. The caliper rotates freely, but won't slide off. Even with a rubber mallet motivator. What gives?

Need to remove the caliper to replace them. I'm going through rear rotors every 30K.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hud

IM kinda confused with your message, but did you take out the upper and lower bolts on the rear calipers? IM surprised they want you to rotate it up and not just pull it away from the rotor itself. YOu need to compress the piston in the caliper too. If you dont have a C-clamp you can put the caliper back on normally without bolts and wedge a scredriver betwwen the rotor and pad to compress the piston. Those rubber slides can be a doozy when putting back on make sure you move them all the way out or towards the cars when reinstalling. Kinda hard to explain by typing. Feel free to call me becasue im not on here often. Hope my jibberish helps!!! 586-855-3270. Mike

Thanks for your reply.

Finally got it done.

There is only one bolt to remove the caliper. Once the bolt is removed, at the bottm, the caliper rotates up to clear the rotor. After caliper clears, it is slid toward the vehicle and off the sleeve pin. Mine froze to the sleeve pin and need to be heated up and knocked off. The left side eats pads pretty quick, due to the sleeve pin freezing on the caliper, so I wanted to replace them and start with fresh sleeve(bushings), and a new piston. Only took me all day.

Hud

I did brakes on a 96 regal this summer for my father and law. It was a pain in the ass. The calipers were both frozen and his only has 36,000 miles.