Date:         Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:03:53 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Front Brake Mystery
Comments: To: lamusicamellama@juno.com
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Sounds like you picked up a piece of gravel that dropped onto / into your
calliper.
Weird sounds are always worth investigating........... check the
bearings.

Stan Wilder

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:03:51 -0800 Les Shiaman <lamusicamellama@JUNO.COM>
writes:
> Last week I drove my vanagon about 10 miles on the freeway and
> noticed
> that burnt brakes odor.  I pulled off and the right front wheel well
> was
> smoking with the said odor.  I scratched my head and drove slowly
> back
> home.  On the way home when I applied the brake I heard a loud
> squeel
> coming from the same location.  Haven't driven since.  Today I took
> a
> look and the rotor looked and felt smooth.  There's plenty of brake
> pad
> left.  I checked out the other side just for the hell of it and it
> looks
> identical. By the way with the van jacked up I found that the
> wheels
> turn, but the pads touch the rotor(I hear a scraping sound -- both
> sides).  Is that normal?
>
> So do you think there may be a problem in that right caliper?  Maybe
> a
> piston or maybe the brake pad assembly is a little screwy?
>
> Maybe this is relevant:  There is a brief and periodic "chirping"
> sound I
> hear from that right front wheel.  It doesn't seem to depend on
> speed or
> steering position.  I just thought of it as telling me to grease
> the
> wheel bearing which I'll ask about in a different thread.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Les
> 84 Westy
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