Originally Posted by firefox

I'm not a Honda guy, but I've replaced many brakes and taught people how to replace it as well. I'm actually here because I'm fixing my gf's '93 accord.

I'm just wondering if you notice that your braking gets worse as you drive the car longer? This could be a problem if your calipers are stuck, or even cheaper the brake cable is rusted. See how brake behaves. Do a quick stop right at the beginning, and compare it to hour later.

I had a problem with my Maxima where after driving for some time, the braking becomes dangerous. Turned out that the brake cable was corroded and one of my brakes was constantly rubbing. Now, this causes your brake system to heat up, and form bubble in your brake fluid and you know what.

I'd suggest the following. After you drive the car for a while, touch each wheel. See if one of them is a hotter then others. This will give you a hint as to which wheel may be causing the problem. If you think one of them is hotter, jack the car up, block the other end's set of the tires (brick/tire/what ever), and try to move the wheel without the emergency brake and your gear in neutral. (Make sure you put something on the other 2 tires!!!). Now check to see if you can move your wheel. It should move freely. Now, try the other end and compare. If it's harder to move or stuck, then it's a caliper, or maybe even the brake line. Isolate to see if one wheel is causing a problem. This should help your isolate it to one of the wheels.

Now the other test is overall braking. If everything is consistent across all wheels, you may be looking at air introduced in the master cylinder, or your master cylinder going bad. I'm not an expert at this and I can not comment or suggest ways to isolate that problem.

I drove with crappy brakes for a year and nobody could figure out that it was a brake line until the day it corroded and got stuck completely. Then I saw smoke coming from the back tires and my rims were super hot. I pulled into Midas (I think) and the idiots at the shop forced me to replaced the calipers, even though I insisted them to just replace the brake line. After they replaced the calipers, the guy came back and said "Oh yeah... The brake line's bad. Sorry, just get the cable, and we'll put it in for free.". Ever since then, I never trust my brakes to just anyone working in a garage.

I hope you the best!