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Re: Front brakes on a car
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Posted by Steve Crum on September 05, 2004 at 20:45:22 from (12.96.185.63):
In Reply to: Front brakes on a car posted by J.A. on September 05, 2004 at 18:39:35:
I just replaced the fronts on both my 93 coupe Deville and 92 Eldorado. Before you start changing parts trying to get lucky and solve the problem, check and make sure the calipers "float" smoothly on the bushings. These bushings are the metal sleeves that the shoulder (closest the the head of the bolts) tightens against. The caliper is designed to shift side to side on these sleeve to self center itself on the rotor. What usually happens is the sleeves rust and get crud built up on them and bind so the caliper cannot self center and thus one of the pads drags hard on the rotor usually the outer pad. Just tap or drive the bushings out of the caliper clean and polish them and the bore they fit in and clean out the outer bores where the ends of the bolts poke thru. Then coat the bushings and bores with a film of high temp moly grease and reassemble. The caliper should now be able to slide back and forth a little to self center and not have un-due drag. This has worked well for me for the past 30 years.
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