Belgian1979vette
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As some of you know, I had to redo a bearing because it failed. When ordering, I also got myself a set of Brake HPS pad to mount on the calipers.
I mounted them after I reshimmed the rear right disc to a runout below .005" and this is now the case.
Anyway, after a long hard day of work to get my rear suspension together and bleed the whole brake system. I went out for a drive and the car started to seriously pull to the right.
I did some checking on a road with loose sand and the front right wheel is locking up faster than the left or rear brakes do.
Now this car always had a slight pull to the right when I still had my old pads in there which I attributed to the rotors that I reused after doing my complete resto. They were sandblasted and cleaned, but did have surface pitting. I expected the pitting to dissappear after some miles of driving, but the oem type pad were to soft to really do anything. Anyway, the front right rotor has a slightly less amount of pitting than the rest does, so I attributed the slight pull to that.
However, with the new pads the pulling is severe to the extent I really have to hang onto the steering wheel in order not to run off the road.
I tried the following so far :
- test if brake fluid was coming out of the hoses, and that was the case.
- test if the flexible hoses were open with compressed air and that was ok.
- rebled the brakes on all four corners and that is ok.
I still had it pulling, albeit a bit less maybe. It still wants to lock up my right front wheel faster than the rest with the associated pull on the steering wheel. Seems to do it faster when the brakes have been used some and are hot.
I'm about to pull my hair out.
Any ideas on what to do next ? Rotor replacement ?
PS : front discs are still the original rivetted items.
I mounted them after I reshimmed the rear right disc to a runout below .005" and this is now the case.
Anyway, after a long hard day of work to get my rear suspension together and bleed the whole brake system. I went out for a drive and the car started to seriously pull to the right.
I did some checking on a road with loose sand and the front right wheel is locking up faster than the left or rear brakes do.
Now this car always had a slight pull to the right when I still had my old pads in there which I attributed to the rotors that I reused after doing my complete resto. They were sandblasted and cleaned, but did have surface pitting. I expected the pitting to dissappear after some miles of driving, but the oem type pad were to soft to really do anything. Anyway, the front right rotor has a slightly less amount of pitting than the rest does, so I attributed the slight pull to that.
However, with the new pads the pulling is severe to the extent I really have to hang onto the steering wheel in order not to run off the road.
I tried the following so far :
- test if brake fluid was coming out of the hoses, and that was the case.
- test if the flexible hoses were open with compressed air and that was ok.
- rebled the brakes on all four corners and that is ok.
I still had it pulling, albeit a bit less maybe. It still wants to lock up my right front wheel faster than the rest with the associated pull on the steering wheel. Seems to do it faster when the brakes have been used some and are hot.
I'm about to pull my hair out.
Any ideas on what to do next ? Rotor replacement ?
PS : front discs are still the original rivetted items.