Re: Strange front brakes dragging
I have the exact brakes on both my SS car and my sons bracket bomber, never had an issue with either. Both are fairly heavy cars of course the kid loves to "park it" @ times near the stripe. The first thing we need to figure out, is the issue hydraulic or mechanical? Personally I would put car on stands, remove frt. wheels, put a couple lug nuts on to retain the rotors then have someone apply the brakes and release them while you check for pad release, the rotors should turn freely immediately after pedal release. If the seem to be dragging, loosen one of the bleeders and see if that frees them up, if so then you're dealing with an hydraulic issue.If you find loosening the bleeder doesn't help, you need to check for caliper alignment, both centered and for being square to the rotor, if the caliper is "tilted" in relation to the rotor it will cause issues. Another thing that can cause problems is the pads being hung up in the caliper, they should move freely. As Strange eluded to, their calipers are not designed to "retract" they use an Oring in their calipers VS a sqare cut seal, the square seals tend to "pull back" more on the piston. Please try some of these things and let us know what you find. Joe
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Joe Buchanan SS/BX 3117
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