[GidEup]

One of the two rear caliper pins is sticking; the pins that the caliper sides left to right on. The grease seems to solidify and then the pin starts stick and the brake starts to drag. Last time I regreased both pins, I could barely remove the pin that was sticking.

What I've tried:
-regreasing with regular grease; solves the problem for awhile but then goes bad.
-using higher temp grease; lasts longer but still happens.
-checking the pin for bends etc; its straight and dent free.
-dug as much of the solidified grease out of the pin pocket as possible and replaced.
-swapping the top and bottom pins; still happens.

Suggestions (short of replacing everything)?

I'd upgrade to something like willwood or brembo but I cant afford that option at this point in time.

[wishIhada5.0]

take it all apart and clean out the slide bore with a cue tip or stuff a paper towel into it with a screwdriver and clean it out that way. start all over with the hi-temp grease. it only takes one little grain of sand to make it hang up.

[F8L GT]

what are you greasing them with?? If its regular grease that could be your problem. Try some caliper slide grease

[mrbigjeep]

use some of the motorcraft die electric caliper grease...what we use at the shop and works fine

[GidEup]

1st attempt was with some ford/merc multi purpose by valvoline
2nd was with lucas x-tra heavy duty grease.
(only choices I had at the local parts store)

wishihada5.0-thanks i'll give that a try.
f8l Gt- any suggestions for brand etc? I may have to mail order the stuff.
mrbigjeep - happen to have a sku handy?

[slonlow2000]

I'm gonna bump this, even tho its a little old. I finally got my car out of the garage today, its been sitting through the cold crappy weather. It was finally sunny today and with more bad weather coming tomorrow I figured it needs to be driven. Anyways when I got back from a 30 min easy drive I could smell my front pass side brake had been dragging and was hot. I've already cleaned them out and regreased before but just used some lithium grease, and I guess that wasnt good enough.

So if you guys could post up what kinda grease yours using and where to buy that would be awesome.

[sikorski04]

My rear brakes experienced uneven wear on the left side. It was so bad that the inner brake pad eventually fell out when driving.

After investigating the problem during a brake job, I found it was due to a caliper pin no compressing. I tried liquid wrench, twisting it out, hammering it out, and many other combos.

After an hour of messing around, I took the bracket to a local mechanic and he was familiar with these issues. Torched it red hot and pulled the pin out. He didn't want to charge me but i gave him 10 bucks for the help. Was able to reuse it and not have to buy another bracket.

[Eagle2000GT]

Sometimes you have to give up and get a new caliper bracket with new pins. I couldn't beat the pins loose on one of my rear caliper brackets with a hammer. I gave up and bought new parts. I haven't had a problem since.

P.S. Every parts store I've ever been in recently sells caliper lube.

[1_nice_03_gt]

so is that y it wud make a squiking sound from the left side of my car?

[burner79]

Just get new pins from autozone. The kit for left and right is about $18 and includes bolts and everything.

I thought this was my only problem, but it turned out to be a warped rotor.