Problem still not fixed need HELP!!!
03-25-12, 09:54 AM
#16
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You say you feel like the car's acceleration is being held back, and it makes noise when acceleration and slowing down. Have you checked your front brakes? The pads may not be on right, you may be missing the pad clips (or possibly damaged), or maybe you have a sticky caliper. Pull the bolt on one of your caliper's slide pins, and rotate it so you can do an inspection. With a small C-Clamp, the caliper piston should push back pretty easily. I was able to do it by hand.
Here's what the pad clips should look like:
Remove 1 of the 2 bolts, and the caliper will rotate exposing the pads and pistons.
Here's a pic of the caliper removed completely (you only need to remove 1 bolt for your purposes).
IIRC, the slide pin bolt gets torqued to 25 FT-LBS.
Here's what the pad clips should look like:
Remove 1 of the 2 bolts, and the caliper will rotate exposing the pads and pistons.
Here's a pic of the caliper removed completely (you only need to remove 1 bolt for your purposes).
IIRC, the slide pin bolt gets torqued to 25 FT-LBS.
03-29-12, 01:54 PM
#18
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Well then..
feels like a moving part....but what would it be wit the brakes? what do you mean when u say probably ur brakes?? feels like its dragging and like something is about to give way...feels like ur trying to move forward but something is slowing u down alot i mean i really gotta push down on the gas hard....and when i let off i lose speed very fast i cant just cruise....u can hear it the most and the worst when driving in a residential or parking lot....
03-29-12, 07:53 PM
#21
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03-29-12, 08:16 PM
#22
Raise the front end off the ground and spin the wheels. They should spin freely. If they don't, it should be the brakes since you've already had the wheel bearings inspected. Are your rotors discolored, or do they look normal? If it is a sticky caliper, I have no idea how the other shops weren't able to find it. Good luck finding the problem tomorrow.
03-31-12, 09:59 AM
#23
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Right on
Raise the front end off the ground and spin the wheels. They should spin freely. If they don't, it should be the brakes since you've already had the wheel bearings inspected. Are your rotors discolored, or do they look normal? If it is a sticky caliper, I have no idea how the other shops weren't able to find it. Good luck finding the problem tomorrow.
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