sticking rear brakes

hgallegos915 · Post by **hgallegos915** » April 1st, 2006, 4:07 am

I checked my brakes..the hand brake was sticking a bit the brakes. i removed it and ok... i noticed and think one of my rear calipers is sorta seizing..its dirveable but i get ALOT of rear brake wear and alot of brake dust.. hmm any ideas on how it can be fixed or how i can tell? its making my car slooooow i get around 20 mpg now.. hmmm i think i gor 21 today.

stereoking15 · Post by **stereoking15** » April 12th, 2006, 1:43 pm

it's real easy to dismount the caliper and check for sufficient free play in the caliper slide pins. also as well one of the slide pins is an automatically lubricating one so you should not have too many problems with it i just did 4 wheel brembos with kvr carbon fibre pads and had both front calipers seized which took a lot of finese to free up and my rears were not to terribly bad but once apart you can lubricate the slide pins with either sil glyde brand lube or a synthetic brake grease prefferbly made by crc which can be had at just about any knowledgeable napa auto parts store.

sxetechie51666 · Post by **sxetechie51666** » April 23rd, 2006, 11:10 pm

i ended up having to just take it to the local shop where i get all my work done, and they had to completely replace the hand brake cable, the calipers, the discs, the pads, it cost over 600$ US

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » April 24th, 2006, 10:16 am

This is why you need to grease your calipers every single solitary time you take them off, even if it's just an inspection. What I do, is after I unload the pads, I press the brake pedal once or twice to make the caliper piston come most the way out. Then, I take and grease the snot out of the sides as far down as I can get, then recompress it back into the caliper. Never had a siezed caliper, ever.

stereoking15 · Post by **stereoking15** » April 24th, 2006, 4:23 pm

that my friend is not a wise thing to do because if you are talking about greasing the caliper by pulling back the rubber sealing boot and shooting grease in there is a bad idea because you do not want a petroleum product anywhere near brake fluid and on top of that what happens when you start getting some wear on the piston? it will start getting in the grease because the fluid is right there on the back side of the piston hoping that the rear seal is not bad so that you get grease all in the system.