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Brake problems, HELP!

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Andres2882

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Finished with my coil-over installation this morning at 5 a.m. When I go to back my car out, I pumped the breaks a few times as I know they usually don't catch right away if you have taken the calipers off. Anyway, this time not only do they catch, but they wont disengage. Not super clamped, as I could drive the car, but you could definately feel that the breaks were engaged.

Anyway, I planned to just limp home, thinking they would fix themselves. However I could smell burning breaks, the RF was making a noise, and then my interior lights appeared to dim. Wacky!

So does anyone have any clue WTF happened here? Also, my coil-overs are less than a finger's span from rubbing my rims, will an alignment of my new CC plates fix that, should I get a spacer or is it fine? Thanks all.
 

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Funny, curious however as to how the coil overs are working out bc im about to buy some for the front. Its just a half inch or so higher then i want it, it would also be nice to have the option to adjust. sucks about the brakes, havnt done much work down there yet but the time will come
 
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more than likely the hose or caliper went bad if it's just on one side,don't know about the lights dimming though.
 

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Caliper is bad. During normal operation the piston stays within a very short throw range. A ridge can build up there over time. When you compress the piston into the bore that built up ridge is now in there causing interferrence. It is pretty common.
 
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So I need a new caliper? Or I just need to mess with them?
 
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Well fixed it. Damn piston had come too far out and whatever gunk in there kept it from recessing back in. The whole time I was messing with it I was thinking that I should just go with 73mm calipers anyway and ditch the stock junk.
 
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