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Old 12-01-2018 | 02:04 PM
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Default Brake caliper sticking

My wife has a 2002 F150 crew cab. About 6 months ago she was kn a long drive back home and the ceramic pad shattered. She had all the kids with her so she drove the truck back with grinding brakes. I inspected the wheels and the rotor was ruined.
I changed the front rotors and pads, bled the brakes and everything seemed to work great. About a week or two of driving, the same caliper seized up. I ended up changing both calipers, both rotors and both pads. After replacing these, it still occurred. I then changed the master cylinder and that seemed to get about 2-3 weeks of good brakes but it seized up again today.
All I can think of is brake lines. They must have some thing faulty going on that's not allowing the brake line to release the pressure once the caliper is disengaged so its constantly engaged. Was hoping to get some feed back because I'm struggling to figure it out and a shop has to replace the line but I hate using repair shops based on previous experiences. Any thoughts?
 
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Old 12-01-2018 | 03:53 PM
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If it is only one caliper, the brake hose to that caliper is suspect.
Did you remove all the rust build-up from the caliper frame before installing the new stainless steel slides?
Also, if you did not, then do and clean out the caliper slide pin holes and give the pins a coating of synthetic grease. We use synthetic because regular grease will harm the slide pin boots. You need to be careful using ceramic pads with rotors that are not for ceramic pads. The pads will destroy them in short order.
If you would, for the folks on the forum, let us know what you found and what corrected the problem, thanks.
 
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