PROBLEM: (ABS Light)(Brakes)(Steering)
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PROBLEM: (ABS Light)(Brakes)(Steering)
Here's what it's like to drive my truck right now.
You're driving down the road. ABS light is on. You hit the brakes, as you normally would, they are really soft - go all the way to the floor. You hit em hard, the pedal turns into a rock, and the whole truck steers to the right HARD AS IT CAN.
Pump the brakes, and they get hard, won't work.
Hit the brakes, normally, at any speed - no braking power.
Hit the brakes kinda hard, but not fast - some stopping power.
Slam on the brakes - steering turns you hard right. very hard right.
There is a constant squeek/metallic noise from the driver's side brakes/wheel.
You're driving down the road. ABS light is on. You hit the brakes, as you normally would, they are really soft - go all the way to the floor. You hit em hard, the pedal turns into a rock, and the whole truck steers to the right HARD AS IT CAN.
Pump the brakes, and they get hard, won't work.
Hit the brakes, normally, at any speed - no braking power.
Hit the brakes kinda hard, but not fast - some stopping power.
Slam on the brakes - steering turns you hard right. very hard right.
There is a constant squeek/metallic noise from the driver's side brakes/wheel.
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The rear drums on our trucks are a big pain in the but when rusty or mudded up. I have this type of thing a lot, though not quite the same symptoms. If you don't find anything up front, then take the drums off and check the rears. Particulary make sure that the adjusters work and that the rears are properly adjusted.
Also, that resistance problem sounds like it could be something in the brake booster. Going down too far is often the rear brakes being bad. High resistance and low stopping power is usually the master cylinder or booster.
Also, that resistance problem sounds like it could be something in the brake booster. Going down too far is often the rear brakes being bad. High resistance and low stopping power is usually the master cylinder or booster.
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Originally Posted by Trevelyn1015
If it's not one thing, it's always another thing, huh?
Gah.
Aftre 5 years, though, and 50,000 miles, I guess the brakes would naturally be going out, right?
I'm sure I've had the pads replaced and the rotors turned, a few years back...
Gah.
Aftre 5 years, though, and 50,000 miles, I guess the brakes would naturally be going out, right?
I'm sure I've had the pads replaced and the rotors turned, a few years back...
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Originally Posted by SuperGildo@RRP
why to a mechanic?!?!? tear that beetch apart and fix it yourself. unless its something really fawked like you snapped the upper a arm mounts off(extreme case), it should totally be something you could do yourself fairly easily...
a) i had tools at school
b) if my apt. complex would let me work on my truck in the parking lot
c) if i had the time to work on my truck
d) if i wanted to do it myself
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Originally Posted by mammioo
christian graduates in may. he is taking 18 hours this semester.
i'm very proud of my boy.
we have good mechanics here in college station.
i'm very proud of my boy.
we have good mechanics here in college station.
Im not trying to say hes a bad guy, i think hes a good guy i was just suggesting. I guess im just always eager to save the expensive labor money of a mechanic and do things myself...