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#1 Petro1head

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Posted 30 April 2013 - 07:36 AM

have 7.5" S Disk setup with Mintex 1144

 

Under heavy breaking the car tends to steer to the right suggesting I may have a problem with the LHS calliper.

 

I checked it over the other week, removed the outer pad and pressed the pedal to push the piston out which took more force than I would expect. (inner was fine)  So I gave it a liberal coating of WD40 and then pushed it back in, repeated this several times and by the time I was finished it took little pedal force to push the piston out.  Jobs a goodun I thought. 

 

Took the car out last night to check and its still pulling to the left under heavy breaking :(

 

Just to add, all ball joints been done, new tie bars and rubbers, to and bottom arm bushes all good, shockers are new and tyres had 28psi each side.

 

So I can only assume I have not done enough to free off the sticky piston.  So I am now thinking about removing the calliper, splitting and taking the piston out and making sure all is clean and ok.

 

Any thoughts about anything else I should be aware of and pitfalls to stripping the calliper gratefully accepted :)






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