And the fun doesn't stop here folks...
On the way home from work today I hear some occasionally growling noises from the rear end.. At I got home I stopped at this one corner and I THOUGHT I heard an airplane flying over head..when I completed my stop I realized this was not the case..
You see when my friend and I put these rotors on a few weekend ago we discovered that the pass-rear parking brake was dragging hardcore. So I had my friend gut the parking brake. I've never used them in the 6 years I've owned this car so what the hell.
Well today I jacked up both sides of the rear end and put the tranny in drive. I rotated the rotor with a screw driver and some lug bolts.. I heard a noise but could not find it. I thought it was this metal backing plate behind the rotor so I removed the rotor only to find some twisted beat up metal...
I do believe this was causing quite a disturbance. Its my fault, I just assumed he'd completed it before he had to leave for work however I should have double checked before putting the rotor on.
After further inspecting the parking brake area, I put the rotor back. I put in three lug bolts and spun it with the screwdriver. Its spun pretty free. I mounted the caliper, and installed the pads and tried to rotate it again. Its was pretty difficult and make some noise as I did so. It rotated a bit, then got stuck, I applied more force and it moved past the spot.
I am now curious as to if my inner piston is sticking on this caliper.. I replaced the front calipers a few years ago but never did anything with the rears. When I obtained snow, tires some four years ago, I ground down a small area of the caliper so that it would clear the wheel adequately. This grinding down did not effect the operation of the caliper merely smoothed an edge. However I am curious as to if whomever I bought replacement calipers from would take these as a core... I don't know.