Need Front Brake Help
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Need Front Brake Help
My brakes started making noise last week light grinding, inside pads were way down on both sides. Right side rotor had pits in it filled with brake pad
left side caliper one piston not working. Relaced left side caliper both rotors and pads today. Brakes sound like they are draging and when I stop
just before I come to a coplete stop they grab hard, and I hear noise?
Please help!
left side caliper one piston not working. Relaced left side caliper both rotors and pads today. Brakes sound like they are draging and when I stop
just before I come to a coplete stop they grab hard, and I hear noise?
Please help!
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I am assuming u have a f250 or 350. There is no profile in your gallery.
If u do, when u take your caliper off u have one bolt on the top and one on the bottom. Once the caliper is off, look at what those bolts screw in too. Those are the slide pins and should have a rubber boot on the end and move freely in and out. If they do not move freely in and out of that bracket still mounted to the truck, it will wear the brakes fast, cause them to drag, and also cause them to pull left or right
If u do, when u take your caliper off u have one bolt on the top and one on the bottom. Once the caliper is off, look at what those bolts screw in too. Those are the slide pins and should have a rubber boot on the end and move freely in and out. If they do not move freely in and out of that bracket still mounted to the truck, it will wear the brakes fast, cause them to drag, and also cause them to pull left or right
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You will need to check on both sides as usually not included in the caliper kit.
Remember when u did the rotors, u pulled the 13 mm headed bolts (i think Might be 10 mm) that hold the caliper on and then u took out to large bolts 15/16 or 24 mm if i remember right to slide the rotor off? That part that is held on with the two big bolts is the caliper mounting bracket. On there, where the two little bolt are the little pins that should slide in and out freely. Its where the two bolts that hold the caliper screw into.
Another thing to check is to make sure your little tin pieces your brake pads go into are mounted securely and properly but that would not cause the dragging/grabbiness.
U also should check to make sure you did not kink the caliper hoses when you remounted the caliper. If they are rolled like a corkscrew betweenthe caliper and the frame they will cause big headaches too.
Did u bleed the brakes?
Remember when u did the rotors, u pulled the 13 mm headed bolts (i think Might be 10 mm) that hold the caliper on and then u took out to large bolts 15/16 or 24 mm if i remember right to slide the rotor off? That part that is held on with the two big bolts is the caliper mounting bracket. On there, where the two little bolt are the little pins that should slide in and out freely. Its where the two bolts that hold the caliper screw into.
Another thing to check is to make sure your little tin pieces your brake pads go into are mounted securely and properly but that would not cause the dragging/grabbiness.
U also should check to make sure you did not kink the caliper hoses when you remounted the caliper. If they are rolled like a corkscrew betweenthe caliper and the frame they will cause big headaches too.
Did u bleed the brakes?
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Thank you so much, the caliper I put on today came with a new bracket as well, so I will just have to check the right side?
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If it came with bracket, then yes. Also check hoses on both sides and make sure the do not look kinked.
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