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Old 12-14-2007, 08:46 PM
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Default 1997 4x4 pulls to left on breaking

I have a 1997 dodge ram diesel 4x4, pulls to left on breaking, the harder you put your foot down, the more it pulls to the left, these are the things I have changed out.
1-both front calapiers
2-rear wheel cyls
3-both front break hoses
4-master cyl.
5-front end aliment
6-lower control arm bushings
7-all front end joints tye rods etc
8-and both front calapiers again
9-rotors and drums too.
any help would be great, (sorry for bad spelling)
 
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Old 12-14-2007, 10:24 PM
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Default RE: 1997 4x4 pulls to left on breaking

welcome to DF... have you checked the alignment? you could have a caster issue on that side, not saying that would cause a pull under braking but maybe its pulling w/o braking and the brakes are amplfiying the problem...
 
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Old 12-14-2007, 10:40 PM
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Yes the alignment was done on Wednesday of this week, they wanted new lower controll arms cam adjusters put in, the others were all rusted up, they said at the Dodge dealer all the front end stuffis good, also I checked the steel break line to both front wheels, no damage.

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Old 12-14-2007, 11:01 PM
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mine does the same thing. ive been wondering about it for quite awhile its done it for the last year and half (the elngth of time i owned the truck) ive done suspension work, brake work, allignment work. i cant figure it out. ive bene wanting to ask but i just deal with it. maybe all new brake lines wiht the ss braided lines? and bleed the system really well? i dunno i haven tfound anything that works
 
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Old 12-15-2007, 07:47 AM
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Default RE: 1997 4x4 pulls to left on breaking

Mine did the same a few years back. The caliper piston was sticking. Replaced and all was good. Since you've already done that and more, hard to say. Unless you have some trash that was in the line andhas gotten in the newcaliper.
 
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Old 12-15-2007, 10:52 AM
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Mine did the same a few years back. The caliper piston was sticking. Replaced and all was good. Since you've already done that and more, hard to say. Unless you have some trash that was in the line andhas gotten in the newcaliper.
good point... did you flush the lines before you installed the new calipers? you may have some debris in the line that is not allowing the caliper piston to release the way it should. and also did you grease the caliper slide pins when you did the install? it could be that you caliper is binding up on that side.
 
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Default RE: 1997 4x4 pulls to left on breaking

Is it possible that the caliper on the other side isn't working at all and the correctly functioning brake is not really the culprit?
 
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Well no, I have not flush the lines, but I am going to replace the both rubber lines on Sunday, will flush then, will try anything to get normal breaking.
 
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Aim has a good point... could you be troubleshooting the wrong side?
 
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Default RE: 1997 4x4 pulls to left on breaking

Today I replace both rubber lines, cleaned out all lines, and new calipers again, now no more pull to the left, could have been junk in lines or bad caliper, but I am happy with it now.
thanks for your input people.
 


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