Just pulled the front brakes to determine the cause of a grinding noise on hard breaking - caught one worn brake pad about 1/20th inch before it would've start eating into the disk. Whew.

Anyway, the lower guide pins seem to be completely stuck. These are the single piston late model non-ABS girling brakes. There doesn't seem to be a logical way to drive them out from the other side, and pulling/twisting doesn't do anything. Eventually I grabbed it with vicegrips and started hammering away against those with a small (2 pound) hammer - nothing.

In the FAQ I read something about driving them out with a 13mm socket, doesn't seem to be a way for that.

Is there a good way to get these things out (seems to be an inner and outer part assembly that goes in as one, right?) or is it time to start buying a new carrier assembly? Upper guide pins are perfectly fine.

For the time being I just replaced the offending pad until I get this sorted out, then I'll replace the lot.

My local parts place didn't even have a listing for post 09-93 without ABS, fortunately the pads listed for ABS seem to fit just fine.

One last thing, the disks still seem to be fine (no scoring or whatever), just a lip on the outer edge. The obvious way would be to have that machined, but wouldn't it be a lot cheaper, faster and easier just to _carfully_ take off that lip with an angle grinder, without touching the rest of the disk surface? Alternatively I suppose I could put that worn pad in and do a few hard brakes, seems to have taken the lip clean off the disk on the side where it used to live.