Brake trouble

notenuftime

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Alright tomarow I'll start on that, i kept seeing that when i would compress the cylinders in caliper and installed the pads that they sat a little crooked. All signs of rubbing where in one spot on pads, maybe due to cylinders not compressing like they should.
 

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Could be a blocked bleeder too. Those little caps come off easy and dissapear quickly letting all sorts of crap in there.

I would put the dust shields back on too, don't want rocks and crap getting up there..
 

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I couldn't bleed my front brakes on my '89. I finally figured out that my master cylinder wasn't sending any fluid to the front brakes. I replaced the master cylinder and all is well.
 

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I have fluid comming into the caliper, checked the other side was able to bleed that just fine. Can not bleed this side.
 

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I have fluid in caliper when i completely remove bleeder, made sure bleeder was clean. Maybe collapsed line, caliper pistons are easy to compress so i dont think it is seized.
 

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Is your bleed screw an actual bleed screw? One if my calipers had a plug that looked like a bleed screw. Sounds odd but true.
 

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Well the "brake issue" is solved, thought i heard the bad noises coming from my new brakes. Well all along it was a bad carrier bearing, just sounded like it was coming from up front and just so happened to go bad right after i changed the brakes. Haha typical.
 

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My carrier bearing exploded on me. It made loud THUD sounds at it's worst, before I could get it to a shop the next morning.
 

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