Rear Left brake Caliper

[congo]

I need a rear left brake caliper after I attempted to free up a sticky piston
and found out I have no idea what I am doing.
The caliper slides are fine, eveything is shiny and clean inside the bore,
the piston looked good, but I had a terrible time removing the piston.
I ended up making a special tool to turn it out, and it got stuck right before
it came all the way out, so I used vice grips on the outer lip to remove it,
which pretty much made a mess of that part, managed to punch a couple
holes in the dust cover. I can't figure it out so I give up and I'll swap my tools
for a good working caliper or part this FTO out after I dropped my big vice on
my foot trying to bolt it to my bench so I could deal with this caliper, I'm so over it.

Happy Easter
congo

[getonit]

Rear brakes are overrated. Just cap the lines and drive that bad boy around on the front brakes.

[congo]

thanks, but ...... what about my foot?

[spetz]

You can buy the piston separate from Mitsubishi if you wanted to rebuild your current caliper.
Alternatively the 258mm rear solid disc brake setup is shared among many Mitsubishis and perhaps they would fit too if the FTO one is difficult to source.

If you message dstocks he should have the parts you're looking for as well.

Don't "Just cap the lines and drive that bad boy around on the front brakes" though

[congo]

Thanks for the info, I kinda figured the rear brakes were common
to other models, just not sure which ones. I tried to PM Sahin, because
he's helped me with FTO stuff in the past but I didn't get a reply and I
don't have his current phone number.

As I said in the initial post, I confidently began working on the caliper
myself, as I've done most of my own repairs all my life, but things
just started going wrong, I got hurt, and I lost confidence in this job
to be honest.

It should be a pretty routine job, I did a lot of research before I took it
on, but nothing about this job worked out the way it's supposed to, and
I just want to get someone else to do it so I don't waste any more time,
effort, money or blood.

Going to travel through Brissy next week, so I'll grab a couple calipers
from a wrecker as a stopgap measure until I find someone who can
recondition them.

My mechanic friend said he would help, but he said he only ever rebuilt
one caliper in his whole career. He is on holidays now however.

[spetz]

They're not too tough to rebuild. I did some research and ended up rebuilding all 4 by myself successfully.
I thought your post was a joke to be honest (the dropping the vice on your foot part) - Hopefully you're not too badly hurt.

I couldn't tell you which calipers would fit though as I know with Mitsubishi the same brake setup can have different brake line fittings, different piston diameter etc but if you get one from an FTO it should be fine