Plugers

Just installed new rotors and bought a rebuilt semi-loaded caliper from Rock Auto.

After installing I was going to take a spin around the block and the car will hardly move. I look and the rotor is hitting the caliper bracket.

Now I only used the bracket after realizing the caliper was fine and it was just a pin that was stuck.

I ordered the S8 caliper, how do I make sure I get the correct bracket now?

tozoM8

I assume you are talking about the rear brakes. They probably gave you an A8L caliper carrier 269mm. The S8 is 280mm so there is a 5.5mm difference.

Plugers

Yup, nice that it was listed for a S8 though.....

Well I ended up working the frozen pin out of the old one and took a flat file to the slide surfaces to clean them up and swapped the pins/boots from the new bracket. Took me an hour, but I had no car at that point anyway.

Plugers

As in the surfaces that the pads slide on, they had a nice bumpy coat of rust on them.