Originally posted by elraido:
Originally posted by warmonger:
Originally posted by Big Daddy Kane:
I had a brake pad fall off of an 83 Tercel once... it was very interesting driving home while it was "falling" out.

Made quite a bit of racket until it totally fell out, then the piston fell out w/all the fluid going with it (like mentioned). Junked it after that.




The pad can fall off but the metal backing plate will still be there riding on the rotor. That is probably what he means.


Nope. not just the pad but the metal backing as well. If you guys don't want to believe me that is fine as well, like I have nothing else to do but fabricate stories about my breaks. And it isn't like it fell out when I was changing them either....cause we changed them in my friends garage and the part was laying out in front of my house. I have only had the car since I first registerd, and that was a year and half ago. And during that time it also sat for about 2 months because I hit a deer, sat another month when I got the buick (which I just sold) so it is more or less like me having the car for one year....which means I am getting around to fixing stuff like that on it. And no, they were not stripped when I first started taking them out. I used a small mirror to see were the heck the bolt was and what type it was. And yes the piston was rubbing up against the rotor, but it never fell out......that turned out to be the metal on metal sound I posted about before. And why am I taking crap from a noob?



Whatever man, I wasn't calling you a liar. It is most common that the pad comes loose from the backing plate. I can only imagine how long it would have to be driven with metal-metal contact for the metal backing plate to finally come out....followed by the piston and whetever else. Seems to me you'd get it checked out before then.


Anyway, most common is the pad comes apart and you get metal to metal contact with the backing plate and the rotor. That is when normal people stop and get it fixed.

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