1995 P32 Rotors Overheating

turbojimmy wrote:
Glad you got it sorted out. I popped into this thread to ask you if you fixed it because mine was behaving oddly yesterday ('84 P30, rear discs). I replaced the rotors, calipers, pads and MC last year. It's been working fine. I took it out to get it inspected yesterday and about half way to the inspection station (about 5 miles in) the pedal got really stiff. The brakes still worked well - too well actually. The pedal was very "touchy". When I stopped at a red light I smelled that hot brakes smell. I pulled off into a parking lot and it was both front brakes that were hot and smelling. They were definitely dragging - I could feel it when I accelerated. I let it cool for about 15 minutes and it was fine again for the rest of the journey. But now I'm afraid it will do it again unless I can figure out why it did it in the first place.

That is almost a classic indication of contaminated brake fluid. The fluid gets hot, the water boils, which causes the brakes to drag. They will release as soon as the fluid cools and the water goes back to water instead of the pressure created by the steam. Try flushing your brake fluid COMPLETELY. Do not do just a bleed. It may take three quarts of fluid to properly flush all of the old brake fluid out of your master cylinder and all wheel cylinders.