rear brakes hot
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Could be Sticky bracket where the pad sits in the clip on the Mounting bracket, sticky piston in the caliper, sticky slide pins on the caliper.
Clean up the bracket and reinstall the clip, check for free-floatyness of the pads. Checkout pad life.
I don't know what shape your rigs in. My 07 came from our Canadian brothers up North and was quite rusty from they day I got a screamin' deal on her.
If yours is anything like mine was it might be easiest to jump ahead and replace those cracked brake hoses and trade out for some re-manufactured calipers. Guy could even do all four if he wanted to get carried away...
Clean up the bracket and reinstall the clip, check for free-floatyness of the pads. Checkout pad life.
I don't know what shape your rigs in. My 07 came from our Canadian brothers up North and was quite rusty from they day I got a screamin' deal on her.
If yours is anything like mine was it might be easiest to jump ahead and replace those cracked brake hoses and trade out for some re-manufactured calipers. Guy could even do all four if he wanted to get carried away...
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Update on rear brakes hot
I completed the installation of rebuilt calipers and new pads for the rear yesterday. I drove the Tahoe this AM approximately 6 miles and checked the rear brakes, the rotors were extremely hot feeling, the calipers were not hot just warm. I also checked the front brakes and the calipers were only warm to touch.
Could this be normal or could my emergency brakes on the rear be dragging causing the heat buildup on the rotors? As I stated eariler post I did replace the rear emergency brake linings recently. The old emergency brake linings were wore out.
Thanks in advance for a any advice or information to this issue.
Terry
Could this be normal or could my emergency brakes on the rear be dragging causing the heat buildup on the rotors? As I stated eariler post I did replace the rear emergency brake linings recently. The old emergency brake linings were wore out.
Thanks in advance for a any advice or information to this issue.
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Sounds to me like your parking brakes are dragging and/or not properly adjusted. They should barely make any contact with the rotor during normal operation since they are only used when the vehicle is parked. I have never worn out the parking brake pads on a vehicle except for one time when my idiot ex-girlfriend drove around with the parking brake on.
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Sounds to me like your parking brakes are dragging and/or not properly adjusted. They should barely make any contact with the rotor during normal operation since they are only used when the vehicle is parked. I have never worn out the parking brake pads on a vehicle except for one time when my idiot ex-girlfriend drove around with the parking brake on.
Thanks for the reply,
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FWIW, the parking brake is not an emergency brake. It's just barely a brake that will keep a vehicle stationery when applied w/ the vehicle stopped. You can test this by trying to stop just using it.
I suspect the adjustment has to be made at the shoes.
I suspect the adjustment has to be made at the shoes.
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