Hey all I have been on this site for a while but i got out of the car scene for a while since i am only 16 but now am back :) . I have a 2001 Dodge Neon ES with the sports package.
1. Could u tell me what u know about the (Sports Package).
2. Today i went to go use my car and my passenger side rear caliper stuck and wouldn't release it self. Like when i pressed on the break the caliper piston wouldn't go back into the caliper. I think that i need a new caliper. Right now i have got the piston back in enough and to make it go back in and out enough so i can drive the car but the breaks are rubbing against the rotor. Could u give me any information about how to install a new caliper on my car.
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thanks for the help and sorry for the speech :)
rice_eater
08-31-2007, 01:09 AM
Check the brake line first. The rubber line could've collapsed on the inside, allowing fluid into the caliper to lock the brakes, but not allowing fluid to flow back out and release them. This has happened to me. Brake line is cheaper than a caliper. ;)
alaskaneon
08-31-2007, 05:22 PM
Dodge, I think what you are going to find is that you have installed your calipers wrong. I'm talking from experience here, I have worked on a lot of different vehicles pulling the calipers off and such and my 2001 neon is the first car I have run across that you can actually install the calipers incorrectly and it will bolt back together. The first time I changed out my brake pads I had the same problem you are having and couldn't figure out why it was locking up and rubbing against the wheel. If you haven't disassembled your other caliper, pull the wheel off and look how it fits up there - then go install the other side. You could always go find a neon in a parking lot somewhere and look at it if you have disassembled them both. Good luck!
DodgeNeonES
08-31-2007, 08:45 PM
thanks everybody for helping me with this. I gotta go to work tomorrow so i wont have time to take off the caliper and check out to make sure i put it on right. Does anybody have any pics of a caliper that is installed right :) .
Does anybody know about the Sports Package. lol
thanks rusty
dodgeneonACR98
09-03-2007, 05:55 AM
The sport package is just a package with a few sporty options. Like your wheels, rear spoiler,leather steering wheel, leather shifter knob, 4 wheel disk brakes,seat color, ect ect. I hate to inform you that it don't make it any faster than the rest. Yeah I know right! Bummer.
I have done my brakes a few times and my back ones need it again. Just make sure you get the thing back on the same way! I can't see where the 1st gen neons like mine are easy to put on wrong. must be a 2nd gen thing! Good Luck and buy yourself a Haynes or Chilton manual so that you got some reading material there when you do it the first time. Those manuals are life savers!!!
rice_eater
09-03-2007, 10:11 PM
Dodge throws a "sport" package on everything now-days... Heck, can you even buy a Caravan that isnt a Caravan 'Sport'?
donald7150
09-03-2007, 10:26 PM
actually you can! you could i think as far back as the early '90s
The caravan SE had an available sport package that threw on fog lights, color coded everything on the exterior, nice wheels and after '96 a spoiler too
donald7150
09-03-2007, 10:27 PM
wow i think i misread that last post a little bit
DodgeNeonES
09-09-2007, 09:17 PM
thanks guys and i know that there it dosent make my car any faster then a basic neon. :( lol.thanks for the help and right now its not making any noises or anything and i have good braking response so im gona run it the way it is until something comes up. DodgeNeonACR98 i do have a haynes manual and yes they are the lifesaveer. thanks
sohc98
09-19-2007, 12:56 AM
i see that you got it fixed but if it happens again i would suggest that you listen to rice_eater because i had the same trouble with my car and i didnt listen to him and ended up spending lots of money i didnt have.
