how to LOOSEN stubborn caliper bolts (almost every time) 

Back and forth breaks the rust up

We're fucked

You just gotta get a open ended wrench and a hammer. That’s the only way. Be prepared to break the wrench.

Or, blow torch the bolts before trying to loosen them. The heat may break them loose.

@@kevinbrigden6276 Had to go to the mechanic with it. Almost melted the caliper bracket using a torch and it still wouldn't come off. Even they used 45 min to get it loose. Oh well don't have that car anymore and thank god for that

@@Sci-Mon1 Yea, no lol. Been at that for the past 4 hrs. What else now besides heat. .

This tip save me A LOT of money !!! Thank you Jay !!!

I’m about to do it 😖

Thank you thank you thank you!!! Just tried this after trying everything on a caliber bolt and it worked perfectly

YOU HELPED ME BRO THANK YOU

Wow great idea 💡

I broke 9 out of 10 of caliper bolts

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How

@@TheBeeHive2700 Just put a little anti-seize on the threads before you torque it down.

Yeah, some a-hole probably put thread locker on it.

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Lol look at all that clearance he has

Yeah good luck with that

Torchhhhhh! biggest wrench you can fit in there and a mallet to bang on the wrench

call your mechanic xd

Yea dude if i had all that i wont be on youtube looking for shit

I have a Milwaukee 1/2 Fuel 1400 ft lb breakaway impact wrench. Doesn’t do anything if you can’t fit it inside the fender space.

Buy one 🤷🏼‍♂️

@David DDM I totally agree with that LOL it's expensive but at the same time it's a good investment

Home depot, lowes, menards... anywhere that sells pipe.

I was able to change the pads and rotor on pax side, but have a rounded bolt trapping my driver side rotor

I didn't break mine yet but I am afraid I am going to which is why I didn't try his method!

Let me know if you find something

@@bergenmatthew I actually have my truck still in the air for about a week now. I got the two bolts loose on one side using liquid wrench. The other side I just keep applying it to and plan to tackle it again this weekend. Liquid wrench from what I have seen online is one of the best penetrating oils you can find.

Find a socket that barely fits, be it metric or whatever so it is snug and then hammer the socket on to the head all the way then attach bar

Here’s a couple thoughts. If the head of the bolt started to move even just a little bit, switch to a ratchet, Keep moving it back and forth to work the rust out of the threads. I’ve snapped a lot of bolts that could’ve been avoided if I worked the Bolt back and forth to get the rust particles out. Sometimes I’ll use the breaker bar in the opposite direction to try to break it loose that way and then in the correct direction. Sometimes taking a hammer and tapping on the whole can jar some of the rust loose. Working with rusty nuts and bolts can really be a challenge. If I’m pushing on a Bolt with a large breaker bar there’s a point where I start to get nervous that I might twist the head of the bolt off. That’s when I stop I think I hit it with a hammer I go the other way. A lot of people find that heat helps with a torch. I haven’t found much luck with that personally. If the bolt does start to move it’s extremely important to go back in reverse and then Forward many times. If it feels like it is locking again reverse the direction. I hope some of these ideas are helpful

@@livefree6878 thanks, I was able to get the 2 bolts out by moving back and forth just a bit, lots of penetrating oil and patience, now I need to find a RPL spindle as the twisted off bolts are not going anywhere.

@@livefree6878 great 👍 info thank you

Yes. It makes your torque results more accurate.

Use a car jack beneath it or above it if you have to

I wish I had an answer for the rear, this trick works so good on the front.

Just changed my rotors on 2009 p71 caliber bracket bolts were hard to come off went to Home Depot to get a metal pipe already had a breaker bar . Bolts were no match thanks for the video

That actually is a great idea.

Great info, are the shops using different techniques?

@@acemoto2319 Acetylene, impacts hammer & cans of Freeze Off.

@@scottfree2929 ok thank you 👍

Donald Trump nigga the fuck?

Or propane. Placed on the knuckle around the bolt. At least on my car, the knuckles are aluminum, which heats up and expands faster than the steel bolt. Also softens thread locker. Then bolt can be removed.

What is map gas ?

@@jasonburton5092 is butane like propane?

It didn't work. Gotta love the rustbelt

Craftsman ratchet and dewalt impact

How do you get it out if that happens? I've tried drilling through it and using a bolt extractor with no luck

@@baldycunt3268 Using just very small drill head and drill many holes in it and eventually it will just break apart. Sorry for bad English!

Of course they didn't use anti-seize, that would be moronic. You are supposed to put thread-locker on caliper bolts...

You talking about the caliper mounting brake bolts or the caliper guide pin bolts? Because they’re two completely different animals

Sounds like something is fishy. You *tighten* the guide pin bolt and the caliper bolt becomes finger tight?

Ikr

Wow! For us this was a game changer,When the rotor was turned in line with the car, I couldn’t get our breaker bar in to get extra leverage. Soon as I turned the rotor outward I could not only use the breaker bar but a cheater bar. If I can’t just remove the caliper bolts first time I’ve been using this method. Of course this only works in the front because you can’t turn the back wheels. Just curious did you use a cheater bar on your breaker bar. I’m just wondering why this didn’t help you get more leverage. Thanks for your thoughts

That’s always hard to hear, hope the ranch didn’t slip off. Hope the job went well though👍👍

I did the same thing

You could try a small pipe wrench with a cheater bar 🤷

What did you end up doing ? I was thinking buy a whole new caliper with bracket because my is super fucking frozen and rounded .

They are on my Volvo--15 MM, spent over three hours, finally got the two bolts off, using breaker + cheater and jack and BFH. Now the other side same thing. No access. Went and got 36" cheater bar but no place to put for leverage.

@@chien-shengtsai8626 Previous person must've used red loctite

@@atillaozturk7075 Volvo OEM bracket bolts come with red locktite preapplied. I finally got one side off, second side was easy initially but now stuck. I ordered some impact stubby sockets because I didn’t want the regular sockets to shatter when using breaker and cheater.