Can't replace brake pads on GQ front right

[pearcey]

G`day Niel
I think that the pin you are referring to is the one fitted with a thin rubber anti rattle sleeve on it.
This sleeve has become sized to the housing but the pin is still able to move, The sleeve is only about 2mm in thickness so if you can pull the pin STRAIT out the only thing that will be damaged will be the sleeve.You will have to use a fair amount of force and pull strait. I used a slide hammer screwed into the pin and a bit of WD40 . It will be the housing that has rusted and grown to the sleeve causing the problem
Beers and Cheers Pearcey

[Neil1812]

Thanks,

I managed to get it out in the end. As you said, it needed a fair bit of force. Should I be able to buy just a new rubber sleeve or do you have to replace the whole pin? The pin on the other caliper seems to have lost the rubber sleeve and just slides in and out of it ok (the sleeve is still inside). I assume it should have something on the end to keep the rubber sleeve on the pin?

Cheers

Neil

[pearcey]

Neil, one pin has the rubber sleeve and one is a pin with a flat machined along it`s full length, both sides will have one of each. The one with the flat does not have a sleeve and is just a straight pin,the one with the sleeve is machined down to take the sleeve but but nit has a retaining lip at the end. I don`t think you can buy the sleeve separate. Caution don`t take too much material out of the pin hole when you clean it up as if the pin is loose you will end up with a rattly caliper and this will cause premature pad wear and possible caliper damage. hope this helps

[Neil1812]

Thanks Pearcey, one side doesn't seem to have the retaining lip and has lost the rubber sleeve in the pin hole. That said, it slides in and out of the rubber sleeve quite nicely. On the other side (the side that I couldn't get off) the rubber had perished and slid over the retaining lip hence jamming it in the hole.