Wouldn’t you know if you looked at it? Besides the fact that you hear that.
Please post some pictures.
temporarily disable brake caliper
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Please post some pictures.
That was my thought too. I had a pad delaminate on a front rotor once, instant metal on metal. As I was driving at the time I didn't have much of a choice in the matter... but once the piston pushed out (backing plate onto rotor), I thought the braking performance was not bad. Might be even better... but it got repaired in short order.
There was a Vice Grip Garage video where Derek drives a Caddy home. On the way a front caliper gave up so the fix was a vice grip on the hose line. Under light braking it looked like a struggle to keep in a straight line--I can only imagine how bad it'd be under panic braking.
I'll see if someone i know has a caliper guage since i don't. minimum thickness is 0.996” from https://www.dustyengineering.com/techtips/minimums.html . I'll take pic of pads and rotor tonight
Bolt in brake hose with thread tape so the brake fluid doesn’t leak out? Wow.
Be safe. Best of luck.
Be safe. Best of luck.
it doesn't pull right very much unless i brake hard. brake pedal is really stiff but i guess that'll happen when the fluid doesn't have anywhere to go on one wheel
when i do my new front pads and rebuild that calliper I'll post some photos, probably to a new thread
I've been broke, like $20 bucks between paychecks, before so I understand your plight. How about going to the local junkyard and grab a set of pads and rotors off a wrecked car? Will get you though and probably cost less than $20 bucks. I think my local u pull it is like $3 for pads and $5 for rotors, at least you and others would be safe.
New brake hose will come with them
One of them is a moron and cut his rear brake hoses and drove around using the ebrake for a week, then he lost a quart of transmission fluid and destroyed the transmission. I don’t talk to him much anymoreinteresting friends . . . .
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