Well I'm still having a serious pulling issue with my brakes. I bled them again, went through one of those large bottles of brake fluid. Didn't get any air bubbles at all. I talked to someone at Autozone and she told me my left caliper is hanging up because it is pulling to the left. What is "hanging up" exactly? My brakes are pulling when pressure is applied not when I let off the brakes! This sounds to me like my right caliper is not working as hard as the left one. When I was bleeding them yesterday I noticed when my brother pressed on the pedal the right brake assembly was making this creaking sound while the left side made no noise. Is this a sign of a faulty caliper?

 

Possibly. Check your slide pins and make sure that they are lubed and not corroded/seized in any manner. If you have frozen slide pins, you will have symptoms of your left caliper being hung up. A brake pull occurs (for example to the left) when your left caliper does more work braking than your right caliper. Since the kinetic energy on the right side is being dissipated at a slower rate than the left the right side will want to continue to go forward while the left wants to stop. That will result in a left pull. In your case if your slide pins are frozen, then the caliper cannot move like it needs to and only one pad will be applying enough force to the rotor if at all.

If you have a soft pedal, check your line! A broken brake line may not always leak, but a massibe bubble will forrm if the inner hose is broken and the outer has not.

Probably the right caliper though.

 

The pedal feels good not soft at all. I will check the slide pins this weekend, they should be good because I just did the brake job a couple months ago and I know I greased the slide pins. Oh well, worth checking anyways. I think I'll need to replace the right caliper again, hopefully they'll exchange it for me.

 

the calipers gotta be stuck, have you taken apart the brakes and put them back on?

side note, the toyotoa tundras brakes have 2 piston calipers in the front, eh who cares, but 4 fricken pistons per brake in the rear, thats pretty impressive.

 

FINALLY! They're fixed! I broke down and took it to a shop to have them inspect and "power bleed" the brake system. They said everything is good but didn't fix the problem. All they told me was that they suspect a faulty caliper. So I took my lifetime calipers back to the parts store and got two new ones, no more pulling. The shop told me the right side caliper seemed to be bypassing internally because the piston moved but just didn't have the same clamping force as the other one.

 

so that power bleed just bleeded out some bucks from the wallet?

I'm doing my brakes wed and wouldn't you know it I get an f'ng flat and have to dick with changing the tire, too bad I couldnt have already bought the damn pads.

 

If you haven't yet replaced your rubber brake lines, don't overlook them. Even though they don't leak, they breakdown from the inside out and the swelling prevents the proper flow of fluid. I went through a similar problem about a year ago and replacing my lines fixed it right up for me.

 

How many miles you have on your rig mayfair? With 61k on mine I haven't even gotten to where I think it needs brakes or lines yet.

 

I have 134K on it now. I don't remember how many miles I had on it when I did the lines. I don't think there is any set number of miles or timeline that you should change them though.

 

BTW the next time I chenge them, I'll be replacing them with braided lines. Apparently they're stronger.