Cirrus brakes drag

Hi Bob...

Not a mechanic, so take this with a grain of salt...

Happened to a friend not too long ago; turned out to be as simple as a brake hose that had deteriorated to the point that it was collapsing inside, and acting like a one-way valve.

Reading between the lines that you'd rather do a little grunt work that waste any dollars, a simple test might be to jack up the wheel first thing in the morning before she's gone anywhere, spin the wheel to check for "freeness" (is that a word? :) Then pump the brakes a few times, spin it again looking for change. If it's noticeably tighter, then play around with the hose a bit, see if you can't make it loosen up that way.

Take care.

Ken

Hi Ken,

Took your advice. The hub was quite tight from the start. Car hadn't gone anywhere all night. I'm going to ask the guy who worked on it to have another look. Maybe loosen it up a bit and have another ride around town.

thanks, Bob

Ken Weitzel wrote:

Must be a regional thing.

Around here, the NAPA choices are Chinese or United Brake Products, the latter mostly coming from Canada.

United Brake is NAPA's house brand made by Raybestos

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

Not sure what you mean.

The rotors didn't last 3 months, or the store didn't last three months?

Perhaps? Sometimes brakehoses can become defective on the inside. The rubber swells and creates a narrower diameter. You apply the brake and the good side does the work until the defective side can catch up. The defective side then doesn't want to release as fast as it should either. I would pull the drums one at a time and have someone carefully depress the brake pedal and watch/feel/listen what the wheel cylinders are doing. The springs should return the pistons smoothly as the fluid is pushed back to the resovoir. If it feels rough it will be a cylinder. If not perhaps the hose?

Hope this helps,

Ian

snipped-for-privacy@veriz> Thanks for helping out here.