Brake Caliper Replacement / Upgrade

[Darksky]

I did an brake job about ten thousand miles ago. But, did not replace my calipers, they seemed fine, moved well, didn’t appear to have any galling. That has bit me in the ass. I have a front brake dragging on the inside of the LF disc.

I will attend to it this coming weekend. Does anyone have recommendations for replacement calipers? I’m not looking to upgrade to a Big Brake Kit. Just replace the calipers with something OEM compatible. 
 

IIRC correctly, someone had posted about swapping to a Suburban’s brakes for larger/better performance. I’m curious about that as well. But for the moment, I need a source for “good, better, best” quality replacement calipers.

Thanks, Dark

[CamGTP]

Previous gen trucks had the rear brake upgrade with the suburban rear calipers but the front were the same.

 

That will be the same way here, the front brakes calipers aren't going to be any different between the half tons. I even researched the part numbers. Both the silverado and suburban run the same AC delco caliper part number.

 

You can buy a brand new reman AC delco caliper from Rockauto for $43, but then you get the $60 core charge and you have to ship your old one back to get your core fee back.

 

You could go to a dealer and see what they charge or hit up a local parts store and get one there. Napa rebuilds factory calipers and if the warranty hasn't changed, they are a lifetime warranty.

[mjm-1957]

The caliper brackets  have much more problems than the actual calipers. Make sure the slides are free and the rust is cleaned from behind the abatement clips. I work at a GMC Buick dealer and we stock the brackets by themselves because we change much more of those than the cailpers.

[Darksky]

I will look at the brackets. Thank you.

Power Stop is selling a reman set of their “performance” calipers for $160. That seems like a helluva lot for a red powdercoat job on a set of standard remans.

 

do the brackets suffer other problems? Like being bent/warped? What else should I look for?