Re: Brakes Siezing
Hi Dr B,
Are your brakes OEM original style drum brakes? It might help with diagnosis if we knew what you are dealing with. I once had a disc brake caliper dragging on an RV which caused me numerous headaches in diagnosing. It was losing its brakes after driving for a while for no apparent reason (to me at least). Pedal would go to the floor, basically no brakes except for the parking brake, which would slow the vehicle but wouldn't do it very fast. Scary to say the least! The fix was pretty simple once I discovered the front wheel was getting very hot due to the disc caliper dragging. This, in my opinion was heating up the brake fluid enough to vaporize it, at which point I would lose my pedal feel with little to no braking. Changing the caliper fixed the problem, and the brakes were fine. Whew! Very scary at the time.
Al Hook
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