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Originally Posted by eng_man
Thank you for the physics lesson  Maybe you should look at all the pictures, they're not wearing faster on the outside, they're wearing unevenly. I regreased the pins on one of the sides, still the same uneven wear. As for the bearings, I was planning on taking the rear shield off (man it looks dumb when the front is gone) but I couldn't get the wheel bearing and flange seperated from the axle housing. The bearing itself operated smoothly but the flange was what was stuck. I'm hoping that one of my mechanic friends has the right gauges so I can measure the axial end play, but I think it will be ok since there is no wobbling in the rear that I can tell. The parking brake isn't causing the pads to bind up and works fine so I don't think that isn't it either.
Not sure if this explination will make sense but here goes anyway. I noticed yesterday when I was putting the calipers back on that when I had them lined up (the outside of the caliper flush against the pad) and I started tightening the pin bolts I could feel the caliper pull up. I'm not really sure what would cause this since the pins themselves look fine. |
Yeah...kinda makes sense....only thing I can thing that could cause that are 1). pins are slightly bent...possibly from heat & overtorque'ing or 2). threads inside the caliper are slightly stripped...one or two threads could have been cross threaded. I had a problem with my rear brakes last time I swapped them out...see attached picture....inside brake pad wore unevenly. I'm thinking it may be the caliper but I won't know for sure till I do another future rear brake job. If the future brake job still shows the same uneven wear, then I'm just gonna swap out the calipers & see if that fixes the problem. Only time will tell.
Anyhow, good luck with figuring out what's causing your problem....
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