2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Wheels won't fit on over caliper on right rear

[Gordon Maney]

I completed assembly of the brakes on my 2001 Ram 2500 4X4. It has disc brakes front and rear.

All went well until the right rear wheel would not fit on properly. I see the caliper at that wheel is interfering with the inner surface of the wheel. The other three calipers have 3/16" to 1/4" clearance. The right rear caliper touches the wheel before the wheel is fully on. I discovered this when the wheel did not slide on right.

My visual analysis suggests I have proper, right and left hand versions of the calipers, and the calipers and mounts fit on the truck just fine.

Any thoughts on this? I can't see how I did something wrong, I don't see that I could have done anything differently, so I think I need a different part. These are rebuilds. My originals are gone as cores.

 

[HBellmyer]

Take the other side wheel back off and compare side to side. You must have put something back together wrong. It happens to the best of us. Just sit back and look real close. You will see it eventually.

 

[SRadke]

The calipers will swap side to side without clearance issue. The only diffrence is bleeder location. My guess is either the caliper isn't clipped into the bracket correctly or the bracket is wrong.

Look to see the that entire pad surface is running on the rotors wear surface. If it is "in" all the way. If you have the capability post a couple pictures, we can probably spot a problem.

-Scott

 

[Gordon Maney]

I have just gotten a chance to get back to this.

I would not think there would be any way this could be assembled incorrectly and still have the caliper fit on. Not trying to avoid blame, just trying to understand.

Two bolts hold on the caliper mount and two bolts hold the caliper to the mount. If all four bolts are in, how could anything be wrong?

 

[SRadke]

Two bolts hold on the caliper mount and two bolts hold the caliper to the mount. If all four bolts are in, how could anything be wrong?

That is the question. Yet in this case something seems to be. With nothing more than that to go on all I can say is carefully compare it to the other side and try to determine the diffrence.



-Scott

 

[Gordon Maney]

It was the caliper mounting bracket. The two rear calipers came with mounting brackets. One was not the same, and yet it fit on the truck and accepted the caliper, moving it outboard a problematic amount.

Fortunately I had not given back the brackets from the rear. I cleaned one of them up and successfully mounted the caliper.