Pulling to Right after brake change

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Aug 21, 2009 | 02:30 PM

#16

mikesmayhem

Senior User

Joined: Feb 2009

Posts: 320

Likes: 2

From: Stacy, MN

bill64 good tip. That would definately help to see if it was a bad line. The fact that it pulled before the caliper change and now after the new caliper was installed, I would also lean towards thinking it was a brake line issue.

Aug 21, 2009 | 02:50 PM

#17

Boss08v10

Elder User

Joined: Jun 2009

Posts: 663

Likes: 2

From: Elk River, MN

My or may not help but find any empty parking lot and back up at a pretty clip then blast the brakes once or twice. Seems sometimes jaring the system in reverse helps reset things.

Aug 21, 2009 | 07:35 PM

#18

mykels

Junior User

Joined: Jan 2008

Posts: 76

Likes: 0

From: Connecticut

I did napa rotors and LTS pads on my 03 f250 cc 5.4. It pulled to the left for a few hundred miles and cleared itself. Maybe contamination on the rotors or pads.

Aug 21, 2009 | 07:49 PM

#19

EXv10

Post Fiend

Joined: Mar 2009

Posts: 11,798

Likes: 14

From: Mt. Shasta California

It sounds to me like it has nothing to do with the brakes. When you hit the brakes they are giving equal pressure so it is correcting whatever was causing the pull. Are your bearings tight? All suspension tight? Did they reasemble it right? Go back to where they did your brakes and have them inspect thier own work.

Aug 27, 2009 | 03:47 PM

#20

tilelayher

Junior User

Joined: Mar 2004

Posts: 68

Likes: 0

I'm not trying to thread jack, I have the opposite problem when I brake my truck pulls to the right and badly. Replaced both front and rear: calipers, pads and rotors. Still has the problem and the petal now vibrates badly when I brake suddenly. Help?!

Aug 27, 2009 | 03:50 PM

#21

EXv10

Post Fiend

Joined: Mar 2009

Posts: 11,798

Likes: 14

From: Mt. Shasta California

The ball joints can do that easily. I don't know about the pulsing but it sounds like a rotor or ABS problem.

Aug 27, 2009 | 03:57 PM

#22

scraprat

Lead Driver

Joined: Jan 2002

Posts: 8,653

Likes: 4,739

From: Itinerant

jdross440,

Did get the problem figured out and fixed? Interested in the problem and the fix.

Sep 3, 2009 | 12:13 PM

#23

jdross440

Thread Starter

Junior User

Joined: May 2003

Posts: 71

Likes: 0

From: Las Vegas, Nv

Pull

Yes. It was the front left tire. It was separating on the inside. Still had 90% tread left. This is the 3rd Kuhmo tire I've had fail. Right front first, then the right rear and now the the left front. I'll never buy this brand again.