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Does anybody here have piston seal problems as I do with them?

I had the calipers rebuild several years ago. Cylinders were sleaved with stainless,new pistons,seals.
Everytime I pull a caliper from the rotor a piston seal starts leaking. I installed longer wheel studs in my rotors today for a rim change. When I slid the caliper off it was fine, when I compressed the pads to slide back over the rotor one started seaping fluid... All of them are clean no sticking or binding pistons. I am pretty fed up with them after several years, I have been through 3 wheel seal kits..

Anyone know of a decent aftermaket caliper that is a direct fit with our spindle mounting plates? Thanks

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I saw that they were reproducing the 4 piston calipers on EBay. I have no experience with them but they are supposed to be good repos and you can use your original hardware. I was toying with the idea because I want to maintain my original Rallys and it seems like these should fit with no issues.


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The four piston calipers on the first generation camaro's were different than the original firebird ones. Made by different companies I'm pretty sure. Bird calipers were bigger and better.

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For some reason I thought externally they were identical to the Camaros but the pistons were slightly larger. Anyone know for sure?


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