I'm having problems with my front brakes on my '98 Dodge Neon.....The front brakes were sticking......would get hot and smoke.....I was told that I should put new seals in the calipers......so I took the front left one off, and the piston was pretty well shot. So I put new calipers, pads, and rotors, on the front, blead them....and now it is doing the same thing. The left one seems to be worse. Once I use the brakes, they won't release all the way. After a few miles, they get very hot, and smoke. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?????????.......Till I get it figured out, I've been using my emergency brakes to stop, wich is a big pain......Help me.....anyone??????

 

maybe a bad master cyclinder. maybe check the peddle and the linkages

 

Any other problems it could be?

 

are your brake lines pinched anywhere?

 

Brake lines could be contaminated. In which case you'd have to flush out all the fluid (which can be a PITA unless you have access to a pressure bleeder).

 

maybe unhook the brake lines from the calipers and pump them a lot and keep adding new fluid do one brake at a time.

 

Just replace the brake lines... If you disconnect the brakes and pump them, its like pumpnig the brakes with a bleeder valve open and your going to introduce air into the system and run into more problems

 

uhh wont replacing the lines be full of air anyways?

 

I cant see anywhere that the lines are pinched. It will pump brake fluid out with the bleeder valve open but once its closed it locks the piston in place and when the bleeder is opened again brake fluid shoots out and the piston is released. Could it be that Im not bleeding it correctly and there is air in it, but if its that, wouldnt all the brakes act up. Ive done quit a few brake jobs but this one leaves me puzzled. Its had two new calipers actually three altogether the original locked up put a new on and this started happening and i thought I got a bad one or something so I put this one on and the same thing happened. I dont know what to do next.

 

check the brake hoses, This just happened to me on my 99 r/t the drivers rear was sticking couldn't figure it out than found the brake hose had collapsed inside, outside looked brand new.