Front Brakes Pulling

[CraigD]

Hi all,

Went for a drive today and noticed that when braking hard the right front wheel would lock up rather easily and the car pulled to the right. Later I noticed that the car was no longer pulling right in fact it was pulling ever so slightly to the left. With the exception of testing right after the first episode I was giving plenty of time for the brakes to cool off. The pedal is firm with little give and prior to this braking had been quite predictable. Plan on bleeding/flushing the system but I am wondering if I should do more. The flexible lines do not appear swollen or damaged but I am wondering if they may be playing a part in all of this. Anyone else ever have something like this happen to them? What do you recommend?

Craig

[beepbeep]

What car?

My 930 has a bad habbit of pulling when applying brakes. Pads were stuck in calipers beacuse of aluminum/iron oxidation. Remove the pads and clean up calipers first.

[911nut]

Sometimes, when rubber brake lines get old, they swell internally due to age and brake fluid contamination. The inner diameter of the line gets smaller and all of the fluid doesn't move out of the caliper. The result is a pulling sensation to one side or the other. If this is your condition you can detect it by jacking up the front of the car and rotating the wheels. If one wheel is dragging a lot in relation to the other then thats the culprit.

I just replaced all of my rubber lines last weekend as a precaution on my "82 SC. You will need a power bleeder (to bleed the system dry and then flush), 11 mm flair nut wrench. open end wrenches (14 & 17 mm), 2 liters of fluid and the new lines. The night before commencing the work spray all of the hard line connections with Liquid Wrench, WD-40 or equivalent so they aren't seized when you go to loosen them. Loosen the hard line connection carefully with the flair nut wrench while counter holding the rubber line nut with the open end wrench. Installation is the reverse of disassembly.