With good preparation, a bit of patience and a lot of hard work you can improve your car's looks by painting the brake calipers by yourself.

What Is a Brake Caliper? Bolted to the steering knuckle, a brake caliper has two basic jobs: housing friction material (the disc brake pads), and, transferring pressurized brake fluid from the ...

To perform a maintenance job on the braking system, you will have to change the worn out rotors, brake pads and even calipers.

Aluminum calipers are 4 to 12 pounds lighter than a comparable iron caliper, and that reduces unsprung weight and improves ride quality.

Measuring small objects with a Vernier caliper is a lot more accurate than using a ruler, but how to read a manual Vernier caliper is a mystery to most.Step 1: Manual calipers typically have a ...

The pin-drive caliper's increased mass-it weighs 12 pounds compared to the pad-guided caliper's 8.5 pounds-also makes it more heat tolerant. Baer says this should aid caliper longevity.