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Old 08-06-2017, 12:59 AM
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You CAN unfreeze it. But if the piston is stuck, then more than likely you have a bad caliper, and unfreezing it will have it get stuck again almost immediately. It's what happened to me personally.
I recommend just going to NAPA and ordering the calipers. And then give them your old ones for a core exchange refund.

Also, how do your rotors look? My calipers were so bad that I had a huge lip on the rotors, so I have purchased replacement brake disks as well to go along with my pads, brake lines, and calipers.
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