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would it have killed for the put the direction the bolt goes for the calipers the other way and made them out of a decent material!?!?! Changed he one bad caliper a couple of days ago and it took two hours to get the bolt out because the inside was striped.  And I think I found out why it was grinding...there was only one brake pad on it. The inside one was missing.  I actually just found it outside my house today laying in the street. well, i found the metal part of it because there was literally 0 pad left....unless you cound the liiiiiiitle bit that goes inside the holes of the metal. Didn't realize they were that bad. I didn't get the rotor off because the two other bolts to get that off were striped as well and I didn't have 4 more hours to get them off.
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Hold on here. I'm calling BS on this one.
If you had NO brake pad on the inside then the caliper piston was pushing up against the rotor, with no pad being there. The piston would have fallen out and you would have lost brakes on the one side of the car.
Secondly there is no possible way for the pad to fall out of there.
I dont belive for one second what you claim.
Secondly dont you ever lube your caliper slide pins, I do mine once every year on my cars. Do a full brake inspection, suspension, everything man.
Maybe thats why they were stuck in there. By the way if it was stripped that was whoever installed them last, they dont get sripped removing them, they get sripped INSTALLING them, same goes for lug nuts, thats why the first few turns you use your hands, so you dont strip them.
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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.
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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.
I had one fall off the front passenger side on my Contour at 57K miles. It was a big vibration until it fell off (took about 5 seconds). I thought I had a flat tire. Heard the metal on metal sound right after that.
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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.
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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.
Yes, warmonger. That is also what I meant. The piston on mine did not fall off. Thanks for clearing that up. I noticed it wasn't clear on my previous post too.
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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?
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 People that drive 3000lb of metal around and don't keep an eye on their brakes.
And about how ford designed the brakes. The front brakes are easy as pie to do and the design is just as easy as any other car's to deal with.
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working with the rear brakes here....front ones are still good. Thank God for that, because that is actually what stops the car. And my car is only like 2800 lbs or so, thank you very much.  And I have been keeping an eye on the brakes....that is why I bought the buick, because I didn't want to put the money into them before I would sell the car...but I loved the tour too much to get rid of it so I got rid of the buick. I just didn't think they were THAT bad until it started grinding and I took off the wheels.
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