Rear Brake Problems

[shonoff]

Wondering if someone can tell me if I missed something.........I put new rear brake pads on my 98 gt. On my test drive which was about a mile of slow speed and light braking all seemed well. Brakes felt good. When I got in the driveway they were smoking pretty bad out of both sides. So whatever I ****ed up, I did it on both sides. Everything come off easily, everything went back together easily. The pistons in the calipers srcewed in ok, I reused the clips from the old brakes...........WTF did I do wrong ???

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Did you forget to lube the caliper slide pins?

 

[shonoff]

Are both pins supposed to come out? If so mine is seized up bad

 

[Cantslowdown]

Slide pins have to move that alows the pads to move in and out..If froze then get new calipers for both sides..

 

[Kilgore Trout]

New calipers are cheap at AutoZone.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Yup, both pins need to move. Pull them out, clean them up and regrease. It's a VERY common problem. If one is siezed, then it's putting pressure on one pad. A common symptom of this prob is when you take your old pads out and one is worn down more than the other.

A new bracket from Ford is about $40 each side.

 

[shonoff]

Thanks for the info guys. I still cant get the pin out, so its off to autozone tomorrow for brackets and pins. Im sure they will ass rape me for at least a c-note............Thanks again guys

 

[Cantslowdown]

I would just go ahead and get new calpers trust me there not much more then a new bracket and pins..I have just been down this road a few weeks ago..