Hi,

My name is danny, and i recently bought a 02 tl type-s.
Lately i have been driving around and noticed that the front brake were making a sqeaking sound(like something was touching the rotor constantly while driving). So i decided to change the front brake pads(got durlast gold from autozone).Old pads were closed to nothing almost. So, i put new pads on and lubed the where it needed to be. took it for a test drive and noticed the constant sqeaking, the faster the car goes the faster the sqeak. So, i got out the car and noticed a burning smell coming from the driver side brakes, when i touched the rim, it was very very hot, and then touched the passenger side rim and it was fine.
I took off the rim and caliper, and looked like everything is fine.The whole brake assembly was hot at the time, but i was cautious. The rotors were resurfaced by the previous owner like about 2-3 months ago. What should i do, anybody has or had the same problem?
Thanks

 

maybe you have a caliper sticking? Does it pull to the drivers side when youre going down the road?

 

i have tried that and the car doesnt pull to one side. I acutally took caliper out and had someone push the brakes slightly to see if it the caliper moved out and it did, push it back in with the c-clamp and didnt give me a problem. One thing i seen is when putting the caliper back, the lower part had a problem sliding back into the bracket, and hit it with a mallet to push it in and to match the caliper bolt holes.

 

whats up danny, that was my car you bought... good luck with it. for what its worth i never had an issue with the brakes before that... did you only notice it sticking after you replaced the pads?

 

Sure sounds like a sticking caliper esp. w/ the burning smell and heat... check the fluid in the resv.- is it fresh (mostly clear) or brown?

 

ya it was sticking when i replaced the pads, but before that is was fine.

 

ill check the reservior tomorrow morning, if its clear, will i have to get another caliper?

 

Welcome to the forums danny! Great to see a car return

This is very odd, especially if you've checked the piston and it moves freely...

 

Whats up adamlee05. the braking is getting more worse,driver side is shaking more when i brake. i think its the caliper sticking. but its all good because im gonna swap out the calipers for legend calipers brand new from nissin i think, this weekend. hopefully that will help with this brake issue. i was gonna to use those calipers on my accord v6 i had before i crashed the car lol.

 

Steering wheel shake when braking often means warped rotors. Did on mine.

 

^^if his caliper is sticking it will probably warp the rotor

 

danny did you end up doing the legend caliper install yet? hows the car treating you aside from that??? i already miss her :-/ hahah.

 

I have fixed the problem with brakes overheating & steeringwheels shakes while braking. On the driver side, the caliper bracketone of the sliding caliper bolts (the connects caliper to bracket) were seized up, i was gonna go to auto parts store, but i managed to take out the seized sliding bolt and lube it with anit-seize.Put in new rotors and pads and everything is in working order. I couldnt put the legend calipers on cuz the bolt on the brake line didnt fit in the legend caliper, so when i get the part, i will put it on next time.
thanks