Frozen caliper pins in Milwaukee ruined my whole Saturday

I was doing a brake job on a 2012 Civic in a shop parking lot near Miller Park and both rear caliper pins were seized solid, took me 2 hours with a torch and PB Blaster to get them out. Now I coat every pin with Sil-Glyde before install, but I'm wondering if that's enough for salt belt cars. Does anyone run a different grease or just replace the bracket with the pads every time?

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kai_ramirez3812d ago

Man, that sucks. I’ve been there with a rusty Subaru Outback and the same seized pin situation. After fighting one for way too long, I switched to a high temp copper anti-seize on the pins and the slide surfaces. Sil-Glyde is good, but the copper stuff seems to hold up longer in slush and road salt for me. I also started pulling the pins out and cleaning the bore with a wire brush every oil change, takes five minutes. That alone stopped it from ever freezing up again. Do you have a good way to get the old grease out before you re-coat them?