New brakes smoking?
"the brakes smoked everytime I stopped"
Have you tried putting them on the nicotine patch? (haw-haw)
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I keep seeing this complaint over and over. Sometimes the cure is replacing the front brake hoses, sometimes guys just take the calipers off and put them back on and it goes away, sometimes the calipers aren't sliding smoothly in the bracket. Seems to happen so much that it makes me wonder if it's a design flaw.
Did you put in rebuilt calipers, or use the old ones? [Scratch that - "changed" = "changed"]. Were the pistons fully pushed in, and did the pads slide easily over the rotors, or did you have to force them on?
Lastly, I always use brake lubricant (just heavy white grease) where the calipers slide.
Have you tried putting them on the nicotine patch? (haw-haw)
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I keep seeing this complaint over and over. Sometimes the cure is replacing the front brake hoses, sometimes guys just take the calipers off and put them back on and it goes away, sometimes the calipers aren't sliding smoothly in the bracket. Seems to happen so much that it makes me wonder if it's a design flaw.
Did you put in rebuilt calipers, or use the old ones? [Scratch that - "changed" = "changed"]. Were the pistons fully pushed in, and did the pads slide easily over the rotors, or did you have to force them on?
Lastly, I always use brake lubricant (just heavy white grease) where the calipers slide.
Last edited by John D in CT; Oct 23, 2011 at 12:42 PM.
