[Shop-talk] Sticking/Draging caliper

[Matt Wehland]

Thanks for posting Scott.

I'm sure it will help someone.  Trouble shooting is easier with 
experience, and learning from others is easier than pulling hair out 
trying to find the cause yourself.

My first example from my first car-

My first car was a 1979 Datsun 280ZX, family owned since 1yr old, garage 
kept, became mine when I graduated high school.
After a few more years it began eating alternators.
I sold it to a friend who kept having the same issues.
After he got rid of it (it basically rusted away once it started seeing 
salt), he talked to someone who knew the model.
Person told him 'Should have checked the voltage regulator, it is under 
the passenger seat'.
It is under the What?

Had I had more experience I would have known to check charging voltage 
and maybe found the voltage regulator.  And I probably would have kept 
the car a little longer.

I still miss that car, much more refined in many ways than the 95 
Mustang that replaced it.

Matt

On 3/10/2016 11:17 PM, Scott Ryan wrote:
> I did not see the original post. But I will tell you about a very 
> difficult to diagnose problem I had on a honda (more than one, 
> actually, but easier to find second time):
> rotors would overheat, brake fade, melt the pads and caliper rubber, 
> when putting the car up on jacks, was working fine, but it turns out 
> the hose was crushed by rust in a clamp. was keeping a small amount of 
> pressure in the caliper. The rotors would get red during highway 
> usage, if you applied brakes when at highway speeds, but did not seem 
> to be really dragging all that much. It was where a clamp was wrapped 
> around the brake hose, off the struts. (fronts). Person I got the car 
> from had replaced calipers at least twice, rotors I think, and pads 
> many times, in a 2-3 year period.
>
> I hope this helps someone.  Scott R
>
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