{"id":3999,"date":"2018-07-12T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2018-07-12T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T10:00:38","slug":"my-truck-seized-caliper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/12\/my-truck-seized-caliper\/","title":{"rendered":"My Truck: Seized Caliper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I bought my truck, a 1990 Ford F-250, the brakes sounded bad when stopping. It would sound like I was grinding to a halt. I figured at first that it was just rusty rotors because it had sat for a while, but it didn&#8217;t go away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4001\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018_07_12_01.jpg\" alt=\"2018_07_12_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After six months I finally got around to taking a look at the brakes. I took off the left front wheel and found what I expected, a rotor with a not very nice surface. The brake pads were almost new, though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4002\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018_07_12_02.jpg\" alt=\"2018_07_12_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was when I took off the right front wheel that I knew what was causing the noise. Compared to the left side, the rotor looked nice and shiny.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4003\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018_07_12_03.jpg\" alt=\"2018_07_12_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reason it was nice and shiny, however, was because there was almost no material left on the outside pad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4004\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018_07_12_04.jpg\" alt=\"2018_07_12_04\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I looked at the caliper and pads I found the real problem. The caliper pistons had seized, and as a result, the inside pad had been scraping metal-on-metal for a long time, to the point where it had worn down the rotor to half the original thickness.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4005\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018_07_12_05.jpg\" alt=\"2018_07_12_05\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had already bought new pads and rotors, but now I knew I also needed calipers. I&#8217;ll be posting How-To posts about replacing the rotors and pads in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I bought my truck, a 1990 Ford F-250, the brakes sounded bad when stopping. It would sound like I was grinding to a halt. I figured at first that it was just rusty rotors because it had sat for a while, but it didn&#8217;t go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[22,55],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-my-car","tag-brakes","tag-rust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}