Hot wheel

[canadian]

I recently changed all my rotors and pads in order to pass inspection.
After driving it for a bit I noticed there was a bad smell, like brake pads were dragging. The guy at the inspection told me to check my calipers because the pads were sticking. I go for a highway drive to see how she drives and upon returning home my step dad and I looked around the car to figure out where the smell was coming from. We touched the front right wheel and it was too hot to touch, you couldn't hold your hand on it it was so hot.
We pulled the wheel off when it cooled down and on the rotor you could notice the pad was dragging on it.

What can I do to fix the caliper? Do I need a new one? What is wrong?
Also, the center of the hub was very hot too, is it possible the wheel bearings are dead or need more grease? Will the heat wreck the rotors?
We are checking it out in 2 weekends but I need to know ASAP.
Also, should I avoid driving the car until it's fixed?

Thanks

 

[JB91389]

I have the same problem on my drivers side front. As if the caliper wont relese...

 

[Clip]

avoid driving the car, yeah. id lube up the caliper slides with anti-seize really well.

 

[da89soup]

I had that problem on my gts corolla and I tried everything. Ended up changing the caliper and all became well. I am sure someone around here has a good caliper for cheep if you cant fix yours.
Good Luck
Soup

 

[bigal0043]

i got a rebuild kit for my caliper cost me like 3$... my boot was messed up and let some water in there or something i had some surface rust.. cleaned it off reallly really well but the new piston seal and boot and seems to be good

 

[ForcedTorque]

A new caliper shouldn't cost that much, I wouldn't believe. But, I have sold several used ones, so maybe I'm wrong.

 

[supra90turbo]

Just free up the slides, clean them up real well, and anti seize the shit out of them. Make sure the boots are in good shape, and reassemble.

 

[canadian]

Should I rebuild it, or only if neccesary? Would lubing it and anti-seizing it fix it?
Thanks

 

[supra90turbo]

No need to rebuild the caliper. Only free the slides.
You should be able to get them out with some work. You may need to take the caliper off and put it up in the vice, but that's not too bad.

Just get a boot kit at autozone or wherever if yours are junk because it'll just happen again if you dont.

 

[canadian]

No need to rebuild the caliper. Only free the slides.
You should be able to get them out with some work. You may need to take the caliper off and put it up in the vice, but that's not too bad.

Just get a boot kit at autozone or wherever if yours are junk because it'll just happen again if you dont.

Thanks, I will look into that soon. Do the haynes or chilton manuals have caliper diagrams for reassembly?

 

[frank]

On mine the piston was half-siezed in it's bore, no problem with the slides. This was a pretty obvious problem, even a large c-clamp would not force the piston back in it's bore easily.
I considered rebuilding the caliper myself, then discovered that a "fully loaded" caliper was only about $80 Canadian, so went that route instead.
A fully loaded caliper comes with the bracket, new pins, new crush washers, and so on. It basically replaces the whole brake assembly, minus rotor and pads.

 

[billspreston01]

yeah, toyota might want a lot of money but if you look around you can probably get a rebuilt/new/reman caliper assy. for a decent price.

(I found loaded calipers for $25 once...but I have a couple connections) (no I can't use them to get you calipers!) haha

 

[canadian]

Thanks guys, I am pulling it apart this weekend and will find out whats wrong. Hopefully it just needs a simple lube to be up and going again...

 

[Facime]

contrary to some advice here, just lubing the slides MAY not fix the problem. One of the last posters hit on a possible problem that I in fact have on one of my front calipers. I redid both slides on my left front brake and I still have pad hang. Its because the piston is not returning (its only a little bit but it HAS to do this or fixing the slides will do nothing for you) after the pressure is released. Ive got a spare set of calipers and I ordered rebuild kits for them.

Also, if you got the problem on one side its a good bet that the other side is on its way there. Its best to work your brakes in pairs so you get even braking, especially on the front.

One last note: if your caliper slides are in fact buggered up, it can be real hard to get the caliper off the mount plate. Use some PbBlaster and a big hammer...lol.