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- Vehicle Year
- 2004
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- 4.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
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- Doing what I can with what I got.
This is on a 2004 4x4.
To make a short story long, I had the right front brake dragging, did some testing and was pretty sure it was the caliper and not the hose. So this morning I started on swapping in a new caliper and the brake pads were literally froze into the old caliper mount. Even with caliper removed the pads where dragging so hard on the rotor I almost could not turn it. Had to use a hammer and screwdriver to pop'em out. Never had to do that before, and I've been working on my own vehicles for 37 years.
For kicks and grins I recessed the piston back into the caliper, smooth and easy, no problems at all. Pins slide smooth as silk.
So has anyone else seen this. I'm gonna leave the old caliper on for now and see if that takes care of it.
On a side note, both the inner and outer pads looked like they were wore very evenly, the clips in the brackets looked good, but the pads were very rusted, on of the tabs on the end of the pad chipped of when I was removing it. Never seen that before.
Thanks, Mordun.
To make a short story long, I had the right front brake dragging, did some testing and was pretty sure it was the caliper and not the hose. So this morning I started on swapping in a new caliper and the brake pads were literally froze into the old caliper mount. Even with caliper removed the pads where dragging so hard on the rotor I almost could not turn it. Had to use a hammer and screwdriver to pop'em out. Never had to do that before, and I've been working on my own vehicles for 37 years.
For kicks and grins I recessed the piston back into the caliper, smooth and easy, no problems at all. Pins slide smooth as silk.
So has anyone else seen this. I'm gonna leave the old caliper on for now and see if that takes care of it.
On a side note, both the inner and outer pads looked like they were wore very evenly, the clips in the brackets looked good, but the pads were very rusted, on of the tabs on the end of the pad chipped of when I was removing it. Never seen that before.
Thanks, Mordun.
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