My brakes have been pulling slightly to the right. Adjusted rear brakes and still does it. Tweaked left rear adjustment a little tighter and made it worse so will start over and re-adjust them both. Worrying that I may have front brake problem. Can someone give me the big picture approach to diagnosing this? I read recent post on seized brake piston and will re-read it.
I did replace fluid recently so am starting to wonder as I write this if I have some air in left front line keeping it from getting full and equal pressure. Will check that first.
Brakes pull right
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John,
You probably have a sticking piston in the front. Could be caused by your rubber hose flaking off from the inside, and packing itself behind the piston. Replace your hoses. Remove the pistons, clean them up, install new seals.
If your car is pulling to the right, then your problem in on the left. The right caliper is working but the left is not, so when brakes are applied, the right side of your car tries to stop but the left side continues. Might try bleeding your left caliper real good to see if the fluid flows OK. Other wise, if it was my car, I'd be rebuilding the calipers after replacing the hoses
Pretty relentless and predictable isn't it? If you haven't rebuilt it then you're gonna need to. Logical and all that but was hoping for slight respite. Oh, well.
JTB
I did a search on the Advance Auto Parts site and found that they can get rebuilt, loaded or unloaded calipers for $55 or so. By the time you buy a rebuild kit, pistons, the oring between the caliper halves, new hardware and pads, pluse a spare rebuild kit or two in the case that you ruin the first seal retainer that you instal, and add for the cleaning and repainting the caliper, one just might be better off just ordering the calipers through Advance Auto Parts. or any other discount parts place, than doing it your self. Me, I always replace the pistons during a rebuild, because thet are the critical machined surfaces that the seals ride on, so that runs my costs up a fair amount. Just a thought BTW, Advance's price on rotors is out of this world high
try off the ground hand wheel spin and listen for the drag.
how old are the calipers? may be time to REPLACE, to rebuild is a false economy.
My bet would be the flex hose, but who knows!! You probably need a new one anyway!! Oh, if it is pulling right, it would be the left hose!!
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