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Are you positive it is the brakes? Are the wheels a different off set than your "old" wheels? Make sure the back lip of the wheel isn't grinding a suspension component........look for a shiny mark.

 

Me thinks it's not a brake problem, and your interpretation is miss-leading the general assembly here. Let's not get to far into brakes before you are sure it's the brakes. A stuck caliper will not cause "grinding" unless there is no brake pad left, or it has fallen off if you have only driven a short distance.

 

SECONDLY, make sure that NOT ONLY THE WHEEL, BUT THE WHEEL WEIGHTS clear the caliper.

Good point. I'm going to put my other wheels back on and see what happens.

What is the condition of the brake fluid? It is also possible that you have a collapsed hose which is causing a fluid flow situation.

 

If you take the caliper off then you could remove the pistons, clean piston walls and caliper bore, clean out the caliper cavities, and then reinstall. There really isn't much to a caliper. A rebuild is usually quite easy if you opt for that. It's messy, but easy.

Thanks for the advice.

I haven't had any time to mess with it yet. I'm hoping I can get around to it Wednesday

Any pictures?

Added pics to original post.

Going a different route.

(2) 18x11 with 9" backspacing.

Wrapped in Toyo R888. 295/30/18. I'd say 65-70% tread. Easily another season or two left.

CR price is $900 cash only. Already have another set of wheels so I don't need any trades.

These are on my 2004 Z06.

Album of recent pics: http://imgur.com/a/XpVrf

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I may be wrong. But sounds like disconnect the lines from the caliper and take the rotor and caliper off the car. Assuming the caliper can't not be Separated from the rotor. From there, compress the piston to separate them and then inspect the caliper. At this point, I would just replace it because I don't like to dick with things that have already been an issue.

 

Reassemble and bleed brakes. It sucks and takes time, but you'll know for sure what has been done or is the issue.

That's probably what I'll end up doing. More than likely I'll just replace the whole setup.

Do the new wheels clear the calipers?

Yea.

If it's making a grinding sound are you sure that you put it back together right? It's pretty easy on some designs to get things swapped around.

I never removed it. All I did was swap wheels. Never touched the brakes.

Its stuck clamping the disc? If that's the case you could always try taking the caliper off (if you can) and use a c clamp on it.

Correct. I think I'll try reversing the car tomorrow and see if that breaks it free. If not I'll see if I can remove it

Try driving it, it could pop loose. I would say its prolly from the salt on the roads and not driving it for a couple weeks.

Only real risk of anything breaking would be grinding down the rotors and pads right?

Looking for a little advice on the best way to go about this.

Put new wheels on my car yesterday and went to back it out and the front passenger brake caliper is stuck. Is it possible that it's just frozen with the recent cold days? I drove the car about 2 weeks ago and it was fine.

Somebody suggested trying to drive it and maybe it will break loose. I don't have the money to replace them all really as I just bought a ton of stuff for it.

Thanks for any advice.

Looks great.

I picked up some detailing stuff the other day and was going to work on mine this afternoon but ended up getting called into work. Just my luck

Pretty cool story.

http://www.powernationtv.com/post/the-first-mustang-ever-sold-is-still-running