Brake part issues!
Ok all, I took the 2001 beaver Contessa in to the local shop for brakes. The service manager asked me to get the parts to save me some $$$. I thought I had found the parts ok. I had talked with a guy...
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gutfelt wrote:SidecarFlip wrote:
Little hint on disc brakes that you might find helpful..
Often times when a caliper is dragging, it's not the caliper but the brake hose.
What happens is, over time, the interior of the hose degrades and the inside rubber flakes off and floats in the fluid. When you apply the brakes there is a lot of pressure pushing to clamp the pads to the rotor but when you release the brake pedal, the only back pressure (to retract the pads) is provided by the piston seals and it's not much. If the hoses are degrading, which they do over time, those rubbed flakes inside the hose can block the fluid from going back towards the master cylinder, hence, the pads drag, heat up and bad things happen.
My rule of thumb is I replace the brake hoses every 2nd brake job or every 5 years, whichever comes first or you can go to aftermarket stainless steel brake hoses and eliminate that issue entirely.
Don't be surprised that when you do get the brakes done, the pads still drag (if you don't replace the brake hoses as well.
there a old saying never say never but in my 45 years of fixing brake systems I have never seen nor heard of such a happening so I don't think using the word "often" applies here 99% of brakes sticking on is seized caliper pistons and seized sliders
I have you beat in years of driveway mechanicals by about 15 years....
I didn't know it either until my good friend and hunting partner who happens to be the service manage at the local Ford dealership told me about it. I had the exact issue with my F350 and I replaced the rotors, calipers and pads and they still hung and I was picking his brain and he told me. New Hoses (I put on Skyjacker braided stainless hoses) and the issue vanished. I managed to eat the rotors and the pads and roast the piston seals in about 30 miles and yes, they stunk.
Red glowing rotors might work on a LeMans car but they don't work on a pickup truck.
First time for me too but my buddy says it's common on older vehicles. Maybe it's the 'Made in China' brake hoses.....:R
