Well I've pretty much gotten to the point where I realize that the breaks on these cars are just crappy..... After I got money together I went out and bought new calipers: two rear and one front.... The left front seemed to just fine but the right was shot.


Things were fine for a good while but now I'm back to the old thing of the car pulling to the right severely under heavy braking. It seems to be oriented to the right front with is a brand new caliper. My question is, could that old left front that I still have on be toying with the brake distribution or what? Could this be something else?


Thanks.

 

just crappy?

nope. I think the stopping power of the ludes is quite impressive, especially considering the relatively small rotor sizes.

if it's pulling to the right, that means you are getting more braking force on the right side than the left..

since you replaced the right and not the left, it makes perfect sense

 

did u bleed them properly ?

 

Ha, the brakes on any Honda are very good. Especially our performance-oriented Preludes. I recently sandblasted, painted, and rebuilt all my calipers and the braking is excellent....no need to even upgrade the calipers.

Sounds like you need to have a professional check out your brake system.

 

im not sure if its your problem or if its the correct term at all.. floating wrist pin? i remember mine did that because it was stuck and after cleaning all the gunk out, it worked fine

 

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I think they call them slide pins or something like that. Floating wrist pins are in the pistons to connect them to the rods.

Definitely have to have those clean

 

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I think they call them slide pins or something like that. Floating wrist pins are in the pistons to connect them to the rods.

Definitely have to have those clean </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yup im pretty sure thats what they are called. Make sure they are greased and the caliper slides back and forth on them smoothly and easily. Obviously it will only more when the piston is compressed.

 

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Very Important. The caliper MUST be able to float freely for the brakes to work worth a crud at all.

Also make sure that you use the highest temp grease you can find, thin stuff won't hold up