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Driving around last week, I got a brake smell. Stopped at my shop and thermal scan of the left rear showed me the brake was dragging. Whacked the caliper and it loosened up.
Drove fine the rest of the day. Saturday was driving it and it started again. Didn't have time to fix it, so swapped for the Blazer and left it.
Jacked it up
and found I have no idea where the key is for my lug nuts.
bought a master set
with the wheel finally off, tried to compress the piston and no go
figured I'd just hone the bore and reassemble, but it simply wasn't moving... I have new seals, somewhere (moving so much in boxes) so I had to step up and buy a $20 rebuilt caliper.... fun was explaining to the counter person that I wasn't working on a one-ton Chevrolet truck but a FJ40. .... I don't think he understood...
drained the brake fluid, replaced with fresh (as the fluid that came out with the caliper had water in it).... and it's back to working on other projects
Drove fine the rest of the day. Saturday was driving it and it started again. Didn't have time to fix it, so swapped for the Blazer and left it.
Jacked it up
and found I have no idea where the key is for my lug nuts.
bought a master set
with the wheel finally off, tried to compress the piston and no go
figured I'd just hone the bore and reassemble, but it simply wasn't moving... I have new seals, somewhere (moving so much in boxes) so I had to step up and buy a $20 rebuilt caliper.... fun was explaining to the counter person that I wasn't working on a one-ton Chevrolet truck but a FJ40. .... I don't think he understood...
drained the brake fluid, replaced with fresh (as the fluid that came out with the caliper had water in it).... and it's back to working on other projects