Started hearing a portentous scraping noise this week from the brakes, so I plunged into a long-overdue brake job today.

The passenger-side pads changed out easily enough. The inner pad on the driver's side, ditto. But that wheel was constricted in its spin and the last pad was a major task to remove. (Highlight: Whacking myself in the face with a pair of large pliers, Three Stooges-style, but with blood.)

After I wrestled the last pad out, I found those pistons would not ease back to allow the new pads in. I opened the bleeder to relieve pressure and still no dice.

Is there a way to solve this outside of a rebuild or a new caliper? It's a Girling, by the way. How much would a new/rebuilt caliper run me?

Meanwhile, I guess I'm off to buy a pressure bleeder.

Thanks in advance.

Steve M.
Birmingham