Hi all,
was driving my pickup the other day and despite the fact that I thought I'd finally got it all into shape (engine is now leaking much less oil now that I've had the lifter cover gasket replaced) I discovered that it was pulling to the right under braking (damn NoVA drivers making me brake hard...) Fortunately I found calipers were on closeout from Rock Auto for $9 apiece! Ordered three hoses, a hardware kit, and front wheel bearing seals at the same time.
questions:
1) Does this truck (2WD, BTW) use conventional one piece rotors/hubs or can I just replace the rotors without undoing the wheel bearings? (doesn't really matter, but was curious what I was going to be in for.) They'll need to be a turned or replaced; a mechanic replaced the pads very recently but apparently didn't turn the rotors. This annoyed me, but not enough to fix it - until now.2) I just realized after ordering all the hoses that this truck has a rear wheel ABS... remembering from a former life when I actually messed with this stuff, I recall being told that as a rule it was bad to ever let an ABS controller run dry, as then air would be introduced and would have to be worked out either by repeated cycles of ABS activation and rebleeding. (I don't really want to do this as it would likely involve flat spotting my front tires...) During normal maintenance one would pinch off the hose with plastic pliers, but in this case I would be replacing the hose. I remember that in those cases the techs would use a pedal jack to keep the brake pedal depressed to cover the return port in the MC so that a siphon effect would keep the brake fluid up in the lines. Question is, where do I buy one? Don't remember ever seeing one in a store, what brand is good?
I do want to replace the hoses as they apparently aren't real durable... a friend has a similar truck, actually a year newer and with fewer miles - and had one of the hoses let go while he was driving. The other front hose let go while checking for leaks after bleeding. So I figure now that I'm seeing signs of problems in my own truck I should replace them all and be done with it...
thanks
Nate