I took off the front caliper because I needed to replace the rotors. The brakes and calipers were working fine. Otherwise I would have replaced the pads leaving the caliper on. When I got the caliper off, it had this bracket inside of it between the pad and piston. I don't remember seeing this bracket in the how-to videos. Does anyone know what this is? The brackets seem to be rather bent up now. The rubber around the piston isn't so good either.

This is my daily driver and I was planning having the car working today. I'm not one of those people who has their car disabled for days at a time.