Changing brake pads - need help NSFW

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Ok I read about having to bleed the system so the depressuring screw is a no-go.

I did take off the cap under the hood. I will try pumping the breaks, and I will borrow a c-clamp. I'm just skeptical because I gave it a few pretty good whacks with the hammer and it didn't budge.

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Well, you could have a frozen piston. I have dealt with one of these before, if it looks pretty rusted then that might be the problem if you cant get it to budge. If its not moving as your pumping the brakes, its frozen. The only solution for this is to buy a whole new caliper and to replace that, it requires bleeding the system which brings us to a future post of "Bleeding my brakes - need help" [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img].

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