I dont expect much from my 17 year old brakes, but I do expect them to perform correctly. My setup consists of this:

Fresh MC
Stock brake lines
Freshly turned rotors
New Autozone pads

When I did the pads, I lubed up the caliper pins on both sides. The drivers side is more resistant to move when shaken by hand now, but it still slides back and forth. Disks look evenly broken in and worn on both sides. I still have the brake fluid in it that came with the car (probably factory). I am going to bleed out the brakes soon, but I doubt that will help with my issue. Flipped the tires, that doesnt help. Any help wouuld be appreciated.

Edit: the car does pull to the right, would alignment have a hand in it?


Modified by Voodooboy520 at 1:59 PM 12/30/2006

 

I talked to a friend, and he suggested that it might be a weight issue. Because the transmission is on the passenger side and the engine is on the driver, its possible that it has less weight over it and would lock up first. Anybody else have an issue like this with thier crx?

These are stock tires, btw. They lock up under half braking.

 

If those are the original calipers you might need to replace them.
I put a new set of oem calipers on my car when we did the new stainless brake lines and boy what a improvement.

 

I would, but I am upgrading to 11" brakes when I get my 15" rims. These include new calipers, so buying stock ones now would be kinda pointless. Where did you get your stainless lines from?

 

my crx does the same thing, everything is also new on my Rex, calipers, hoses, rotors, pads and the other day i came to a skidding halt when a deer ran infront of me and i left about a 60 foot black skid mark from the right front wheel only, the left front never locked up. my car also pulls to the right a hair.

 

Interesting. Anybody else?

 

Anybody with stock brakes\wheels?

 

dirve for few a days,. ill be ok.

 

wheel locked up is common in crx and civic, hell maybe for all non ABS car, Just have to learn how to brake w/ non ABS

 

If you haven't..... bleed the whole system. Get all of that old fluid out of there. Wait you changed the MC and you didn't bleed??? Hmmmm.

 

Brake systems are designed so that if a brake line/component is cut/broke, only half the braking power is gone
I.E: If your passenger front locks up before the DS, then the PS rear is probably lagging aswell. It's diagonal, the line setups that is.

I'd assume if one is lagging, it would be the brake lines themselves, or the prop. valve.
Whatever is the cause of the problem, the problem is your DS brake isn't receiving the proper pressure (making it brake evenly with the PS)

 

I had this problem before I changed the MC as well, with a fully bled system. Once I bleed out the old fluid I'll check back in. So this is not a common issue with CRX's?

 

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Like I said, that would probably point towards your lines...or prop valve...

 

Alright, flushed the system yesterday, and it still does it. What all would be happening with my lines and\or prop valve? I cant see any visable leaks