Reman brake caliper question

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ok, so im going to be replacing my rear calipers/rotors this weekend or beginning of next week, and my local dealer says they don't list Mr T remans....so my options are
NAPA -online says NuGeon for $82.80 and Eclipse for $57.99 and store guy is the same for the Eclipse, and makes no mention of the $82.80 NuGeon version

Autozone lists Duralast online for $47.99 haven't called them, but sure its similar and that's the only listing they have online [these are the ones a coworker recommends]

Advance lists Beck Arnley online for $63.99 have to order myself [not available in store] or wearever for 50.99 [no bracket] rotors are $38.00/$32.00 for CARQUEST/WAGNER [just like one version of NAPA's] and $167.99 a piece for the beck arnley version [anyone know why they would be so much higher]

so, my question is : anybody have a preferred remanufacter?, I know its a crapshoot and im just wondering if it makes sense to pay $82.80 per side vs the $50/$60 avg the rest seem to be?
I don't mind paying the xtra but I have zero experience with reman calipers in the last 20 years so don't know which to choose

thanks

doug
 
thanks Howard, unfortunately im limited to these three and maybe a mom and pop or two[and I haven't even looked into/called any yet], no Oreilly's for me, do you remember what brand they were or "house brand" ?
 
Advance Auto has a bunch of coupons floating around on the web if you order online. I used a $40 off on the Wearever calipers, came out to $35 a piece when all was said and done. They have worked perfectly for the four months they have been on the truck.
 
Brentbba said:
Have you called CDAN or Beno RE:remfg rear calipers to confirm availability?
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No, I figure any savings would be eat up in shipping costs re: heavy weight of the parts

Howard705 said:
probably a house brand I don't remember-over a year. Probably come from a limited number of places and boxed to your liking.
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^^this^^ I may be overthinking and should just get the dang cheapest I can find, but I would like to avoid doing it twice unless its several years apart :-)

inkpot said:
Have you checked at Rock Auto?
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no, but I will check them today, I had forgot about them, as I was trying to get this stuff without crazy shipping costs, ie: above places ship to store for free[mostly] and calipers and rotors are kinda heavy
 
Bought mine at NAPA and they looked like reman OEM toyota calipers. Same stampings and numbers as the set I replaced.
 
NAPA. Then keep your old cores (expensive to keep, as the core is worth more than the rebuilt unit) Get the NAPA Eclipse Semi-Loaded and then install front pads from a 1998 LC100 in the front of your 80.

Later you can get a rebuild kit for your old calipers and rebuild them to have on hand for use in the next 100K miles.
 
inkpot said:
Have you checked at Rock Auto?
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they do have several different brands but mostly the same pricing, however with shipping plus return shipping for the cores it doesn't make sense to order from them
 
In the absence of OEM, I always go NAPA. I just bought rear calipers from them today. Through April 30 you get 20% off of items you place in a $3.99 bucket. Not a bad deal. NAPA always has 10% AAA discount too. It will be a few weeks before I can compare the calipers to the original castings.

rear caliper.webp
 
Last weekend i replaced back calipers and rotors on my '97 LC. I got the NAPA Eclipse exactly as shown by cartercd above. POS! Problem 1:The rubber sleaves to keep water and mud out of the bracket slides ( dont know the official name ) were so flimsy, floppy, and over sized, that they would pop off the retaining rims and expose the metal to the elements in every possition. I ended up pulling the rubber sleaves off the old calipers ( dont know if they were oem or not ) and installing them on the new eclipse calipers so that they wont get contaminated and jam after the first year. Problem 2: When they remanufactured these units they sandblasted them violently with a very course abrasive. the mating surface for the banjo fittings were so pitted from the rough sandblasting it was impossible to get the the fittings to seal. I had to pull both of them off and polish the banjo mating surface and reinstall. Problem 3: On both units the bleed valves were torqued in so tight I was afraid I was going to strip them getting them lose for the bleed, only to discover that the machining on the threads of the bleed fittings was so poor that they wobbled once slightly loosened. Perhaps the threads in the casting were eroded from the sandblasting. I know you cant tell the quality of the metal by looking, but the metal just had that poor quality look on hardware you might buy at walmart. I should have pulled the bleed fittings from the old calipers.... Problem 4: the rubber plug on the back side of the bracket plunger was so flimsy and fit so loosly that they would fall out with any vibration. I again pulled the caps off the old calipers to use so the plunger chamber would be protected from contamination The rotors seemed just fine. In spite of the above worries I proceeded with the install and they seem to work just fine. Both my 80s are DDs with occasional rought back country use. I havent had much better luck with Auto Zone stuff and maybe a little better from Orielly. I was hoping for a better experience from NaPA. On my LX450 i have Oreilly calipers with 100k on them with no problems. I suspect all the reman stuff is coming from overseas and it is just the luck of the draw which supplier cut which corners on the batch you order from.
 
Its not luck of the draw if you get OEM remans.... By the way about half the time they send you a brand new caliper...
 
DARKNESS said:
Its not luck of the draw if you get OEM remans.... By the way about half the time they send you a brand new caliper...
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as mentioned above, my dealer doesn't have/want to bother/ remans for the cruiser and I just cant stomach paying shipping from cdan/beno twice [core returns] so I just cant go that route.....AND there was a thread showing dealer remans that were not really any better [ even cdan said it could be a long time to get the new as reman in your boxes] hence the question originally posted, about which reman units to try, I guess its a crapshoot as I too always thought NAPA would be good, but seeing the above post I guess it depend the condtion of the core that was used to reman in the beginning. as stated NAPA has another brand online, NuGeon which is almost twice as much, but the counter guy does not offer to get those, so more dice rolling [if paying more means better, as it used to]
 
I would probably rebuild mine myself if I had to do it over. The kit isn't that expensive, just takes a little time.
 
Advanced Auto kept the cores to rebuild later and years without issues. Use the 50 off 100 and add a couple things to get to $75 for free shipping. You can have some shipped and some picked up on the same order. I opted to pickup the brake fluid and cleaner. I'll look thru my orders to get you PN#s here in a sec.
 
CARQUEST Wearever Brake Rotor - Front
Part No YH145304

Warranty 2 YEAR REPLACEMENT IF DEFECTIVE
2
Shipped :2 Ship @$40.99
Discount -$23.10 $58.88

Second order
Wearever Brake Caliper Unloaded Caliper
Part No 19-1653

Warranty LIMITED LIFETIME REPLACEMENT 1
Shipped :1 Ship
$50.89
Core Charges $25.00
Discount -$25.06 $50.83
Wearever Brake Caliper Unloaded Caliper
Part No 19-1654

Warranty LIMITED LIFETIME REPLACEMENT
1
Shipped :1 Ship
$50.89
Core Charges $25.00
Discount -$25.06 $50.83

Coupon basically negates the core on the calipers so you can keep, powdercoat and rebuild later. Date on this invoice was Aug 2011 and I did work in October so 3.5 years no issues.

I would suggest doing a rotor and a caliper on each order to get to free shipping after coupon. try TRT41, WD517 and A124 one at a time to see what gets you the most off. I think the TRT still does 25 off 70 or more the WD is 35% and A124 is 40 off 110
 
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