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
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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