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Old Oct 18, 2003 | 07:36 PM
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Car: '92 Camaro RS, '93 Ranger
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driver side brake drag

My driver side font brake is dragging. Sometimes it squeaks while i'm driving. As soon as I tap the brakes, the squeak stops (and might come back a few seconds later). That wheel spins harder than the passenger side wheel. I'm not sure what is wrong. All I've ever done was remove the calipers back when I changed the struts. The squeaking cropped about 3 months after the strut change. I tried soem brake stomping to see if soemthing was grabbing harder, and the car jerks to the right slightly when the brakes are stomped. I'm thinking that is due to the drag and whatever is causing it.

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Old Oct 18, 2003 | 08:04 PM
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How are the pads? Adequate material left on them?
Make sure the caliper is centered over the rotor, and not canted off to one side.

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Old Oct 19, 2003 | 12:57 AM
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how old are your flex lines? when they get old they swell up inside and prevent fluid from flowing or returning.
you might also have a bad caliper.
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Old Oct 19, 2003 | 01:30 AM
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Yep, possible seized caliper. This happened to me on my old 78 Chevy Van. Pulled to the seized side when stopping, it sounds like the same symptoms you are having. You ought to fix it, it's not safe to run around like that. Calipers are cheap, plus you get core money.
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Old Oct 19, 2003 | 04:51 PM
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I probably could use some new calipers.

I'm not sure how old the flex lines are, but they both look pretty good.

And Finally I have a correction - it pulls to the left when I stomp the brake. I might try readjusting the pads
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Old Oct 19, 2003 | 07:00 PM
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Don't just go by looks on the brake hoses... they can deteriorate internally, and clog. If you don't know how old they are, you should replace them. I've replaced mine twice already; once in 1996, once in 2003.
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Old Oct 19, 2003 | 07:49 PM
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And while we're on this topic, my front brakes are really messed up. I can drive around, granted, but the brakes don't act like they are supposed to do when the pedal is releases and the front a-arms set up on jack stands. The pass side caliper is too tight and the driver's side is too loose, and yes, I have bled them a lot, even with a Mity-Vac (twice to make sure I got it right) and I still have the same problem. Also, would loosening the primary reservoir's hose coming from the master cylinder and stomping on the pedal two or three times get rid of that annoying air bubble I have in the primary chamber? I don't see any way else of getting rid of that bubble and I really don't want to remove the master cylinder from the car so I don't have to bleed the brakes again.
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