So I drop the girl off after dinner and a movie, headin home, I hear this nasty crunch noise and suddenly my break pedal goes to pretty much the floor before I get any stopping power. Luckily I'm off the highway and 2 miles from my house.
I pull apart the rear breaks this afternoon, realize the rotors are absolute crap, and somehow how the break pad that is closest to the differential is GONE from the driver's side. Gone. Needless to say the caliper itself was hitting the rotor, which meant that it got fried in the extended position.
The passenger side rear rotor was pretty much in the same condition. The pad was there but it was down to the backing pad. I'm gonna replace that caliper too just in case.
The question is, has anyone ever had this happen? I'm gonna post pics of the caliper as soon as I can, you would not believe how toasted it is. I bent the handle of a C-clamp trying to compress the piston back into the housing.
ps. And WTF does Ford put the E-brake cable right in front of the caliper bracket? I actually ended up taking the caliper off first then taking off the bracket.
I pull apart the rear breaks this afternoon, realize the rotors are absolute crap, and somehow how the break pad that is closest to the differential is GONE from the driver's side. Gone. Needless to say the caliper itself was hitting the rotor, which meant that it got fried in the extended position.
The passenger side rear rotor was pretty much in the same condition. The pad was there but it was down to the backing pad. I'm gonna replace that caliper too just in case.
The question is, has anyone ever had this happen? I'm gonna post pics of the caliper as soon as I can, you would not believe how toasted it is. I bent the handle of a C-clamp trying to compress the piston back into the housing.
ps. And WTF does Ford put the E-brake cable right in front of the caliper bracket? I actually ended up taking the caliper off first then taking off the bracket.