Front brake pad removal 95' Legacy

[Bushwick]

Was wondering if I needed any special hex heads to get the caliper off? Also, to compress the piston, is it threaded or just push back in?

[subakev]

I think it was 16mm and 18mm bolts. Piston pushes in

[porcupine73]

No Torx for the brakes on those years at least not that I have seen. 12mm 14mm 17mm are the common bolt sizes there though I have had a couple times where it was something else such as 15mm or 16mm but I think they were remanufactured calipers. Subaru does not use threaded pistons, at least not on the common man's Subaru models of that era.

[mikaleda]

The fronts arn't threaded and they should be regular bolts holding the caliper to the slide pin. I don't believe the rears are screw in either the older gen subarus were the ones that had the screw type calipers.

[Rooster2]

Remove caliper bottom bolt, so caliper can be rotated upward, and away from the rotor. Piston compresses in nicely with a C-clamp. Suggesting using grease to lube up the slide pins, if you are replacing the brake pads.

[johnceggleston]

 

Piston compresses in nicely with a C-clamp.

i usually use a large screwdriver to move the caliper towards the rotor,

toward the outside i think.

then i insert the blade in between the rotor and the pad.

since the pads are being replaced it does not matter if you damage them.

 

on the 95 fronts, the lower bolt doubles as a slide pin.

the bolt is probably a 12 or a 14.

 

the lug nuts are 19mm

 

so 5 lug nuts, and 1 slide pin bolt,

and you swap the pads.

 

tip,

once the caliper swings up out of the way,

you can slide it off of the upper pin by moving it toward the engine.

it slides right off.

 

lube the pins before you bolt it back up.

[Bushwick]

Excellent. Thanks for all the tips. Sounds fairly painless. It's seems so rare to have a car that's just so easy to work on w/o proprietary bolts and such. Wish more cars were this easy to tackle.