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Indy Brakes

graememk - 1/5/07 at 12:18 PM

my Indy that is now on the road has all new brakes on it from pads disks and calipers, when cold they all turn freely but when warm they bind a little the wheels still turn but they are a little stiff, and you can feel it when slowing down, what do you think? let them wair down take them out and take some material off ? ideas please.

[Edited on 1/5/07 by graememk]

Agriv8 - 1/5/07 at 12:35 PM

gut feeling wear them down.

a good blat should sort them out and the sun is out for it.

my Boss has just said I can finish early ( flexi time ) and get some miles in.

regards

agriv8

Hellfire - 1/5/07 at 12:38 PM

We had a similar problem when our rears were new - the pistons were not going into the caliper enough (at first) the disc's got hot quickly until the pad material had been removed... personally rather than remove pad material, I'd let them bind a bit longer as they will be bedded in. Otherwise you'll be removing material, then bedding them in more...

Steve

graememk - 1/5/07 at 12:40 PM

thats what i was going to do, but i wanted other peoples views first

many thanks

snoopy - 1/5/07 at 05:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by graememk
my Indy that is now on the road has all new brakes on it from pads disks and calipers, when cold they all turn freely but when warm they bind a little the wheels still turn but they are a little stiff, and you can feel it when slowing down, what do you think? let them wair down take them out and take some material off ? ideas please.

[Edited on 1/5/07 by graememk]

it is most likley to be the break pedal itsef make sure the bolt that goes through the bottom is slack but on the nylock if its tight when it gets used and warm the bush swells and the pedal sticks on and so do the brakes a common fault easily sorted

[Edited on 1/5/07 by snoopy]

rusty nuts - 1/5/07 at 07:02 PM

Could be the master cylinder push rod has no slack. To check just crack open a bleed nipple when the brakes are binding, if that releases the brake the master cylinder is holding pressure .