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You would get tired of that real quick. Drove detroit 2 cycle engines with twin stacks, cab high and that lasted a day before I got muffs. Driven series 60 detroits a bit and they have the absolute
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You may have a problem, or you may not. At this stage I would not do anything with the brakes until I could drive the truck and make a better assessment. The piston in the caliper moves very little
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Don't bother with 3rd Gen. Look towards a exhaust brake. Way better brake life at over 200k miles and going. 3rd gen might be a bigger caliper and clamping but wear is going to be the same. Exhaust br
My passenger front brake is dragging pretty good when I spin the wheel vs the drivers side, the front end is in the air right now for some other work so I have not been driving the truck in some time. Brake fluid is pretty new from the previous owner (owned for about 4 months now) as he had to replace the caliper and rotor on the pass front brake because the rotor basically disintegrated while he owned it. This was discovered the day before I purchased the truck, the rotor, pads, and caliper all look brand new and have enough miles on them that the pads should be seated at this stage. When I am able to drive the rig I can smell the brakes after driving for a bit and a mixture of hard and normal brake applications, the pedal feels normal for a 20 year old truck so bleeding does not seem to be the issue in my mind at least.
Today I went ahead and backed off the bleed screws on the caliper until fluid was slowly seeping out, spun the wheel and no change to the amount of drag. With no pressure being applied in the system what else should I be looking at before I start throwing more parts at this truck (hub assy, new rotors, bend caliper bracket?) Appreciate any feedback, hopefully I'll have my PCM, ECM, and wiring harnesses for the transmission and engine back next week from Auto Computer Specialist so I can finally fire this thing up again!
I plan to take a video tomorrow of the difference between the two wheels and how they free spin, you can clearly hear the pads dragging on the passenger side.