Hey guys,

I noticed this week that my pads were worn down on my front dirvers side but still in great shgape on my passenger side.......after really close observation and some driving i"ve come to realize that my drivers side caliper is sticking closed so its effectively running down the pads really quik and obviously holding me back slightly.......can this be remidied easily? like maybe somehting like oiling and cleaning the piston or somehting...maybe its dirty or rusty or somehting and sticking?

any advice or help would be appreciated...

-Adam

 

You just need to replace the caliper. There isn't any way around it besides rebuilding it and that isn't practical. You can go to a parts store and buy a remanufactured caliper and then you give them your old one and they give you a little cash back.

 

Just the inside pad or both?? The caliper is a free flouting design it slides on slide pins if thy get seized the inside pad will wear more. Other wise its a seized piston in the caliper, Agree ^^^^^^^^

 

To be sure that this won't happen in the near future I would go ahead and buy a caliper and bracket combo so it comes with the new sliders.

 

sliders are an easy fix, caliper is not. yeah like fuse sez, if one pad is worn a lot more than the other, look at the sliders.

 

Hey guys,

Thanx for the response, I appreciate them... So, I took a look at my caliper once I had it off and opened up and it was the sliders, I just lubed them and now it seems to be fine, before it was rough travel and not too good but now it seems to be fine.....Ie once i opened the bleed nut and depressed the caliper itself I could barely move the one part of the caliper ( not sure of the name, but your know how there are two parts and one slides on two rails), but once those rails were lubed a bit it was ngiht and day...

I do hwever have an issueI'd like to ask about....

I did the brakes yesterday, rotors and pads for the fornt, and my main issue was the fact that the grinding was occuring on the dirvers side brake and the rotor had been scored big time...Well now tha tI have my new rotors and pads on that brake is awesome, but my passenger side is now making a grinding noise slightly.....

Just cause I knwo its not the same problem as the other one was ill give you some better information.....First, I did this job last gnith when everything was closed, and i didnt get any mroe brake fluid to top up with, cause I actually needed to drain a fair bit when I was depressing my calipers, my brake light is now on, I think its cause of the low fluid, can anyone confirm this?....Secondly, the grinding only occurs when im coasting, it goes away when imbraking or accelerating....could this be because the brake is in loose state, do to fluid, and is maybe just opened up too much when there is no force on it, making the actual caliper bars (those two bars that are above where you put the pads in, i dont know their name) are maybe grinding a bit on the inside of the caliper? Thirdly, there seems to be a slight knocking sound as well coming form that brake......

I know im new to this but this job wasn't complicated adn I followed all the proper steps and made sure i tightend everythign right when putting everythign back together, I dont understand what my issue is or whats causing this..

Any help would be very appreciated, thanx

-Adam

 

Yes the brake light can turn on with low fluid and or the e brake switch malfunctioning. The second and third question you are just going to have to take it back apart and look closely.

 

OK kool, ill tkae a look after work.....does anyoine else have any insight on this to add as well?

-Adam

 

is a heavy or light grind? by that I mean does it sound like a piece of sheet metal getting scraped or more like two really solid peices of metal?

 

it is actaully pretty light though when turning it gets a lil heavier...thats kinda like pretty open to interpretation but thats the best i can describe it as.....

it actualyl starts out with a lil small grind like once every roation when im coasting like somehting is hitting on each rev, and then it gets quicker the quicker the wheel turns....

does this provide any insight?

-Adam