Drivers Side Brake is sticking...bad! (w/vid)
Sep 13, 2009 | 04:13 PM
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HMMMM...just did my first drives with my Baer kit an having a similar issue. Feels like drivers side is rubbing, gets worse as it gets hotter and thot wheels were gonna fall off above 50mph!
Sep 20, 2009 | 08:29 PM
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Figured I would update this thread a little bit...
Got a few few things done yesterday. Managed to pull both front brakes off and got all 12 pistons out of the calipers at once and exactly at the same time
It sounded like an easy enough task to do at first thought but once we got into it we realized it's not easy getting 12 stuck pistons out of the calipers in tandem. For anyone trying to do this I would advise on lots of C-clamps, rags, compressed air and most importantly patience!! 
Also pulled all the O-rings out of the caliper cylinders and had hoped to of gotten a new set today in the mail but unfortunately the mail-man was not nice to me so my truck is wheel-less and back up on stands till hopefully Monday at the latest when the mailman will hopefully come by and give me some love!!
A General FYI here.
After talking with Tarrant from wilwood last Thursday, if brakes are allowed to sit too long on a shelf and not primed with brake fluid than the O-rings start to dry out and lose their elasticity and therefore do not allow the pistons to move in and out freely. I hope I don't have to do the same thing with the rears because they had been sitting on a shelf for 3 years although they had never been used prior to that so they were basically new in box when installed, unlike the fronts which I had previously put maybe 20,000 miles on them...
Got a few few things done yesterday. Managed to pull both front brakes off and got all 12 pistons out of the calipers at once and exactly at the same time
It sounded like an easy enough task to do at first thought but once we got into it we realized it's not easy getting 12 stuck pistons out of the calipers in tandem. For anyone trying to do this I would advise on lots of C-clamps, rags, compressed air and most importantly patience!! Also pulled all the O-rings out of the caliper cylinders and had hoped to of gotten a new set today in the mail but unfortunately the mail-man was not nice to me so my truck is wheel-less and back up on stands till hopefully Monday at the latest when the mailman will hopefully come by and give me some love!!
A General FYI here.
After talking with Tarrant from wilwood last Thursday, if brakes are allowed to sit too long on a shelf and not primed with brake fluid than the O-rings start to dry out and lose their elasticity and therefore do not allow the pistons to move in and out freely. I hope I don't have to do the same thing with the rears because they had been sitting on a shelf for 3 years although they had never been used prior to that so they were basically new in box when installed, unlike the fronts which I had previously put maybe 20,000 miles on them...
Sep 22, 2009 | 06:48 AM
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Sounds good Julien...we're learning!!!
I got mine all apart on sat, cleaned off the hubs with wire brush, retorq'd all bolts, dbl checked true of rotors and proper fit of pads/calipers. Baer tells me that rotors are typically small off by up to 7 thou in worst cases, but that the sticking is often a result of the zinc coating grabbing the pads. The slight warp is to force the pistons back off (I had heard this before), but key is to break the pads in for at least 300 miles before the seasoning process. R/
I got mine all apart on sat, cleaned off the hubs with wire brush, retorq'd all bolts, dbl checked true of rotors and proper fit of pads/calipers. Baer tells me that rotors are typically small off by up to 7 thou in worst cases, but that the sticking is often a result of the zinc coating grabbing the pads. The slight warp is to force the pistons back off (I had heard this before), but key is to break the pads in for at least 300 miles before the seasoning process. R/
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