Mother is away for a week, her 2009 WK has 82K miles, brakes are down to about 1/3, good opportunity to throw some new pads on.
Front went fine, caliper lifts off, pads remain on bracket.
Rear caliper holds the pads, as I went to pull the caliper away from the disc with screwdriver the pad stayed in place, pushing the retaining prongs in the piston against one side taking a chunk out of the phenolic piston (WTF, first time I saw something like this... only dealt with steel or SS in the past).
In hind-sight I could have avoided this by slightly compressing the piston instead of just trying to pull the caliper off (there appeared to be no groove, normally pads slide out with a slight tug).
Anyway... live and learn... replacement Mopar caliper is only $50, could be a lot worse.
CCSP, don't worry, she left me me plenty of Sunny-D for the week... yum!
Front went fine, caliper lifts off, pads remain on bracket.
Rear caliper holds the pads, as I went to pull the caliper away from the disc with screwdriver the pad stayed in place, pushing the retaining prongs in the piston against one side taking a chunk out of the phenolic piston (WTF, first time I saw something like this... only dealt with steel or SS in the past).
In hind-sight I could have avoided this by slightly compressing the piston instead of just trying to pull the caliper off (there appeared to be no groove, normally pads slide out with a slight tug).
Anyway... live and learn... replacement Mopar caliper is only $50, could be a lot worse.
CCSP, don't worry, she left me me plenty of Sunny-D for the week... yum!