So a year ago my wife's rear brakes started dragging really bad (particularly the left rear) and smoking, took it to the mechanic and they said that the calipers and the pins were free and they have no idea why they were doing that. So she had them change the rotors and pads and off she went.
One year later on they are badly worn one pad is worn through to the metal and the other is barely there hanging on. So I put my sorry arthritic butt to work on hot concrete sweating so bad that my eyes were burning from the salt(garage and quickjack is occupied by project car).
Found several issues that may or may not have been a problem:
1) old brake hose looked iffy, 16 years old so I replaced it with some horrible chinesium hose from napa because that's all that was in stock locally.
2)the scale of rust was bubbling up behind the stainless steel brake hardware where the pads were sliding possibly seizing it or binding, knocked the scale off with a chisel
3)one of the caliper pins needed grease it was binding and bone dry, cleaned the pin cleaned the hole and greased.
4)with everything done and even a bit of fluid loss with the brake line change and a bleed on that side by brake fluid was over max. I think that the fluid had nowhere to go when the pedal was released so it might have been dragging.
Conclusions: Arthritis really sucks, being old sucks.
One year later on they are badly worn one pad is worn through to the metal and the other is barely there hanging on. So I put my sorry arthritic butt to work on hot concrete sweating so bad that my eyes were burning from the salt(garage and quickjack is occupied by project car).
Found several issues that may or may not have been a problem:
1) old brake hose looked iffy, 16 years old so I replaced it with some horrible chinesium hose from napa because that's all that was in stock locally.
2)the scale of rust was bubbling up behind the stainless steel brake hardware where the pads were sliding possibly seizing it or binding, knocked the scale off with a chisel
3)one of the caliper pins needed grease it was binding and bone dry, cleaned the pin cleaned the hole and greased.
4)with everything done and even a bit of fluid loss with the brake line change and a bleed on that side by brake fluid was over max. I think that the fluid had nowhere to go when the pedal was released so it might have been dragging.
Conclusions: Arthritis really sucks, being old sucks.
