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Old 04-25-2006, 01:41 PM
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Exclamation 1997 F150 4x4 Rotors

Took it mudding a week ago and when I got back home I parked it. The next morning on the way to work, I feel a dragging feeling in the truck. It also makes a humming noise when the tires are in rotation. The noise is consistant with the speed of travel. It get louder as I slow down. I feel like the truck would almost stop itself if I just took my foot off of the pedal and did not press the brakes. I took the tires off yesterday and could not turn the rotar by hand. I figured it was the caliper. The rotor is not warped at all. I pressed the push pads in on the rotor and reinstalled everything. I drove it down the road and the push pad went out, but never released back in. I need to know what else to look for. Is that a caliper problem, slave, or master problem? What to look for? Hmmmm. Could something be pinching my brake line? I have a brush gaurd that runs the whole length of the bottom of my truck. Can someone help me in the right direction?
 
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Old 04-25-2006, 05:19 PM
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You probably have a rubber brake hose that is internally collapsed. I just replaced the driverside front hose on my cousin's 98 2wd for this. It was internally collaplsed and wouldn't let the fluid release back out of the caliper.
 
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Old 04-25-2006, 07:18 PM
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Did you pull the calipers and check the pins that they slide back and forth on. I wheel my truck a bit and the same thing happend to me. Just pulled the two pins and cleaned them up good and put some never sieze on them. No more problems after that.
 




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