Re: brake calipers dragging

From: TonyC (acellan1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 17:50:33 EST


Could it be related to all the downhill braking from returning to sealevel?

I've experienced a problem in the front brakes where the caliper pin backed
out a little which allowed the caliper to cock sideways in relation to the
rotor. Its worth the 10 minute yank the tire to look.

TonyC

-----Original Message-----
From: branning sung <brannings@hotmail.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: DML: brake calipers dragging

>Anyone out there have problems with brake calipers? Both of the fronts on
>mine locked up the passenger side about 6 months ago and driver side last
>week. Its in the shop right now, tied up for 5 days waiting on parts. Got
>2 friends here that had the same problem. I seemed to notice the problem
>most when changing altitudes both times had problems after going up to
>13,000 feet (fine up there but problems the next day near sealevel).
>
>Branning
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