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Re: Braking issue
JDouglas #670192 September 04th 2014 10:52 am
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The pop could be the retainer spring on the pad did not seat correctly.

These years of GM products had an issue with the brake lines swelling shut on the inside.

I had one swell shut enough that it kept the caliper from releasing from the rotor.

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Re: Braking issue
JDouglas #670268 September 05th 2014 11:22 pm
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Had a complete front and rear brake check today and the only thing my mechanic found was a ton of caked brake dust inside the rear drums / shoes. He cleaned and adjusted the rears and it brakes good again.

Nothing pops, so until it happens again, I'm driving it!

Next stop is front shocks installation by me!!

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JDouglas #670274 September 06th 2014 1:32 am
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Lots of "warped" rotors are actually uneven brake pad deposits on the rotors.

This happens when braking hard for a redlight, and keeping the brakes on hard at the redlight.

Can be mitigated by using the parking brake to hold the van stopped at a redlight after a hard quick stop, as drum brakes are not susceptible to this "pulsing".

Lots of people put way more pressure on the brakes after a hard stop than is actually needed to keep the vehicle from rolling forward after stopping.

My sister, like a lot of women, are late and hard brakers, and soon after she got her rotors turned or replaced because of pulsing, they would be pulsing again.

And being a woman it simply was not her fault, as no woman in the history of anything has ever done anything wrong, ever. Modern Feminism has dictated this, and women's magazines remind them dozens of times a day.

But after my suggestion that she not keep the brake pedal clamped super hard after one of her often late braking episodes, mysteriously her pulsing pedal never returned, but she was irritated that she could not blame a Man for it and had to find other areas in which to exercise her magazine grade misandry.

Vans being heavier and loaded can really make this scenario worse than the average car.

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