Hope someone on here knows what I should do. Got this van from my parents and the front right brake caliper was siezed, just put on a new caliper and pads then bled the brakes and it is still smoking. Only worse now. I have done brake jobs before and never run into this problem. Any help would be awesome.

 

Oh ya, its the 3.0L

 

Bad hose that's collapsed internally?

 

yep bad hose or pinched steel line but hose is way more suspect

 

How are the other wheels? Could be a hose or master cylinder. By any chance did you bleed all wheels or just the one wheel?

 

Other wheels are good, and yes I only bled the one wheel.

 

here's what you do. take off the wheel, have someone start up the van and push HARD on the brakes, have them release the brakes and you immediately open the bleeder screw, if you have pressure release out of the bleeder, then you have a bad brake hose holding pressure.

 

I have a '98 Caravan with the same problem. I first looked into the caliper and it was good. I am going to try testing the hose for holding pressure next (when I put it back together today). Could there also be something going on with the ABS? Just trying to think ahead when evrything else checks out.

 

no ABS is designed not to affect the NORMAL operation of the brakes (is merely an addon system)

either a collapsed hose, defective seal in caliper, or maybe just the sliders needa cleaning and some grease.

follow the checks posted above and you'll be able to determine whats wrong