Complete front brake disc & caliper overhaul

I would like to fully overhaul my brakes - front and back. I am easily able to remove the caliper and pads from the car, but after this I fall short. I have undone the screw securing the brake disc (front passenger currently) but cannot remove the disc. The caliper carrier prevents this. It looks like the caliper carrier is held on by only two bolts, but I cannot undo these for love nor money. Has any one else managed to take the caliper carrier off on the front brakes? How on earth did you manage it? I ideally want to strip down all of the brake mounting brackets, shot blast and repaint them. I would also like to overhaul the caliper itself. Can anyone recommend any caliper overhauling kits (seals, boots etc) and give any advice on how to go about this. I have the 440 Haynes manual, but it is often a bit lacking in detail, and especially pictures on how to go about DIY repairs.

These were massively tight and rusted in place on mine. I managed to unbolt one of the caliper carrier bolts and knock it back with just the one bolt securing it in place. Once you have one bolt off and you knock the carrier back then it should loosen the remaining one. Wire brush the head of the bolt, WD40 it, heat around it, get a long bar to put over your spanner/socket for extra leverage. I think I ended up rounding it and hammering a smaller sized socket on top of it.

The two nasty bolts can be removed with a bit of leverage ie a torque wrench or a breaker bar, penetrating fluid and off they come.

Well, the caliper carriers have come off. 24 hours with the WD40 has likely helped. I tried to tackle them the next day, but they were still not moving, so out came the heat spanner. I wrapper a large sheet of folded kitchen foil around the rest of the parts I didn't want to get hot to protect the rubber boot in close proximity. A minute or so with a cooks blow torch (one of those gay creme brulee torches you can buy from ) and the lowest of the two bolts came off. The top bolt was a little more stubborn, and as already suggested above, whacking the caliper carrier forwards and backwards to loosen the nut and bolt helped. It was still really really tough though. This would be much easier on a propper garage ramp, as with just axel stands the car is not THAT far off the floor. Due to the stubborness of this nut/bolt, the lowest possible position of the breaker bar (i.e. touching the floor) was insufficient because when force (significant) was applied the bending of the breaker bar and stub axle carrier meant that the breaker bar touched the bottom of the bumper. Hence the need for WD40, heat spanner and whacking the caliper carrier back and forth. You can see in one of the pictures just how badly corroded the back of the stub axle carrier is. If you try this, enjoy :lol: