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: Breaking - Pulls hard to right


Mark 66SS
Jul 24th, 08, 11:46 AM
Have manual breaks. When I get on them the car pulls hard to the right. Pads are fairly new. Pulled both front drums. Cleaned pads and drums with brake cleaner. No leaks. Everything looks fine.

Thanks for the help!

Mark 66SS

Schurkey
Jul 24th, 08, 1:18 PM
Have manual breaks. When I get on them the car pulls hard to the right.
First Guess: Brake problems. More likely the front than the rear, but it could be the rears. Are the front and rear brakes properly adjusted? If it pulls to the right, look for problems on the left side.

Second Guess: Suspension/steering problems (wiped ball joints, wiped Idler arm, wiped tie rod ends, wiped control arm bushings, etc)

Pads are fairly new. Pulled both front drums. Cleaned pads and drums with brake cleaner. No leaks. Everything looks fine.
If you have drums, you have shoes not pads. How do the rear drums/shoes look? Does the park brake work properly?

When was the last time you bled (flushed) the brake fluid?

drptop70ss
Jul 29th, 08, 9:18 PM
Pulls hard to the right, replace the left front brake hose. Probably collapsed or restricted, left side not working will make it pull to the right.

SamSnyder
Jul 30th, 08, 3:17 AM
I got a funky side-to-side front disc imbalance when I mixed up the leading/trailing shoe installation on my rear drums. All drums have a "leading" and a "trailing" shoe, which is basically a size difference, but they can be mixed up. Instead of one leading and one trailing on each side, I managed to install both leading shoes on one side, and both trailing shoes on the other. Didn't feel much pull, but it ate right through one side's front pads and the disc due to the resulting imbalance. Cost me one disc and a new set of front pads in only 5k miles. Weird, no? Pull your drums and confirm that you have not mixed up the leading/trailing shoe difference.

stroked71
Aug 6th, 08, 9:08 PM
I would second looking to the left side of the system. I would start by bleeding the entire brake system, and pay close attention to any differences in the two sides. If all the pressure behind the fluid coming out is the same, make sure when you hit the pedal that each wheel is actually stopping. via-put it up in the air and have someone hit the pedal and try and spin the wheel. that should show something. If everything is fairly new, i would think a wheel cylinder is probably stuck.