turbo nasty
Turbo Dojo / MNTR
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- Jul 19, 2001
Double check the slider pins in the front brakes from broke or bent as well as the way the brake hardware in teh rear is put to gether...sometimes the springs and such may seem correct but are not.
long shot...... cross rotate front tires. radial tire pull.
I'm gonna look at all of the easy stuff first (rotate two front tires, check tire pressures, caliper guide pins, etc), but the proportioning valve might be an issue. My car still has the original iron valve. It only biases front to back, but I've read that it can cause some strange brake problems like nose diving or even pulling to one side or the other when it's not operating properly.I'm going through the same thing. Not sure on the g/n's but I'm looking at replacing my proportioning valve.
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I tried that while I had the car on jack stands yesterday and saw no issues. The only thing I couldn't do was have someone try to turn the wheels with the brakes applied since I'm a one man operation. The one issue that sticks in my mind is when I was using a c-clamp to push the passenger side piston in. It was pretty hard at first, then I heard/felt a slight pop, and then it compressed easily the rest of the way. The fact that these are the second set of calipers to have this problem makes me think it's the hose. Maybe I damaged it during installation.You mentioned the brake hose, I know you put on new ones but maybe you have a defect and here's
my story. On two different vehicles, the last one being a chev pickup about 2 years ago, the brakes were
"dragging" in the front, right side only, after stopping for a stop light. I figured it was the caliper going
bad so I pulled off the wheel, had someone step on the brakes while I was spinning the rotor, it stopped
right away, but, it was locked up, and I could not turn it until about 3 minutes had gone by, and then I
could spin it by hand again. I took off the brake hose completely, tried to blow through it with no luck,
so I tried blowing air thru it with an air hose, it was acting as if it were plugged solid. I bought a new hose
and that took care of the problem. After talking to a couple of shops, they told me that it is more common
than I think. Try doing what I explained here to check them out...