RF sticks

[Old Goat Ninja]

OK, so my right front brake is sticking. It doesn't always happen. My rotors looked like the letter C, so I changed the rotors and pads this past weekend. Drove truck to work this morning, no issues. But on way home truck started pulling to right and sticking. I pull over. Right front is smoking bad! Work is a 9.8 mile trip each way, and this occasional sticking problem is about 2 months old now. I thought the pads were sticking inside the C shaped rotors, but apparently not.

Any ideas on what else I should try? Maybe a bad caliper? I'm about ready to drive this truck off a cliff haha. Runs great but has a few occasional issues that pop up, with this one being the worst.

Thanks in advance.

 

[1997chevydriver]

Either sticking caliper or the rubber line is bad on the inside

Sent from somewhere in MN

 

[Old Goat Ninja]

Either sticking caliper or the rubber line is bad on the inside

Sent from somewhere in MN

So I am assuming there's no good way to check the rubber line on the inside? Oh well, if I'm going to replace the caliper, might as well replace the rubber line while I am at it, just to make dang sure I get it haha. Thanks.

 

[Blue95]

Considering a set of calipers are $15 each and rubber lines are about $9, no reason not to replace both sides and re bleed, it happens trucks these old, if you have the money go for SS lines, I did and love the improved pedal feel, if you are going to change pads too then go for some 2500 calipers as they are dual piston and better.

 

[Old Goat Ninja]

Yeah, I don't want to change pads now, just because I did a couple days ago. I changed pads and rotors. I'll go ahead and do calipers and lines next. My local O'Reillys has the Calipers for $16 so cost isn't bad at all.

Hoping this will finally get rid of this problem. It should, not much left to change out haha.

 

[Blue95]

They are original I bet, the truck is almost 25 yrs old, what do you expect.

 

[FastOrange]

i had similar issue, turned out to be the line, went through 3 calipers before i thought about it.

 

[Old Goat Ninja]

They are original I bet, the truck is almost 25 yrs old, what do you expect.

Yup. I'll change calipers and lines this weekend. Thanks guys.

As a side note, my old neighbor just happened to drop by and saw truck for the first time. He crawled all around it checking it all out and said it's a solid truck, nothing major wrong with it. We're going to fix a few other things this weekend along with my calipers and lines. Sweet. Good timing him stopping by like that. He's a damn good mechanic and well repected around here for his work. He said all my little issues are easy fixes.

 

[Blue95]

They are easy and wear items, not a lot of money to fix and will be very safe, so nice to have good neighbors and a skilled one at that, sounds like a good weekend