Brakes pulling to one side

it will attact the seal on the piston if it pulling to the right it will most probable be the right brake that has a problem
when reasemberling use new brake fluid to lube up the piston and seal

WD40 will cause the rubbers to swell up and stick more, Use brake & clutch cleaner.
The only grease I use on my sliders is red rubber grease, and copper grease on the back of the pads.
Lithium grease will attack rubber.

on the sliders i used normal gease the way i cleaned mine was to put a nut and bold though the middle and do it up tight then put some valve grinding paste on it then get a socket on a drill atachment and spin it up moving it in and out cleans it up a treat and mine has never got stuck again

Im still sure its my left caliper not braking but i will clean both sides anyway. So im using brake an clutch cleaner an red rubber grease, wish me luck.

markyp2000 wrote:

Gromit wrote: The sliders as people call them are the brake caliper pistons that seize in the caliper mounting causing the brake on that wheel work poorly which makes the other brake pull the car to that side.

Example - Seized caliper piston on right front wheel will make the car pull to the left !

Seized caliper piston on right front wheel will make the car pull to the right as the brake wont relise and make it come on before the other/left brake because the brake pressure is higher than the relise pressure so the piston comes out but wont get pushed back in

No mate, under braking conditions the seized caliper will not work and the good brake works and pulls the car to that side - brake steering !!!!

well in my 17years of working on cars a stuck brake does as i say but if its realy jamed then yer it wouldnt work
so if a piston is stuck fast with rust on the pad side of the piston what stops it moving out NOTHING what stops it moving in is the rust thus the brake is clamping the pads more than the other free piston the othe side so the stuck caliper comes on first as it has got the pads clamped slightly thus pulling on the stuck side first

so hoow would you move a stuck piston either pump it out with the brake pedel or if in a work shop some times use an air line blower

If after checking both pistons and calipers and sliding pins, changing fluid and checking disks and pads, you still have an issue, consider changing the flexible brake pipes. I had a very bad pull when braking, changed/checked everything and it was all okay, changed the flexible brake pipe and it was fixed. Weird thing was the pipe looked absolutely fine, it must have perished inside.

HTH

Ive just finished, it was 1 of the sliders on the passanger side, it wouldnt move at all, i had to use a hammer and a little metal bar to get it out, then cleaned and greased an now its fine. Thanks everyone