Locking or Grabbing Brakes
Locking or Grabbing Brakes
If you ever step of your brake in a normal fashion and yet they respond as if you had just braked hard you probably have foreign matter between your brake pads and rotor.
Clean out the foreign matter
This matter MUST be cleaned out so that there is sufficient contact between brake linings and brake drums.
Or, as the case may be, between your brake pads and disc-brake rotor.
Worn brake pads
You may have worn your front brake pads so thin that metal meets metal when your pads press against your brake rotor.
Master Cylinder Trouble
Another possibility is that your master cylinder was over adjusted by a mechanic. This too can cause your brakes to grab or lock.
Grease leak
Or the problem lies with your differential which can leak grease it there are faulty seals.
This gets onto the brake lining which will impair your braking efficiency.
Loss of brake fluid
In fact, any loss of brake fluid has the potential to cause your brakes to grab or lock.
Undriven Vehicle
Finally, any vehicle that has not been driven for two or three months runs the real possibility of having serious braking problems.
This would be as a result of rusty drums and rotors or broken down, watery or rusty brake fluid.
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