LordWayback
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My caliper fell off and locked up
I thought I blew up my transmission because my truck would not move …….
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My caliper fell off and locked up
Scottydoggs
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damn both bracket bolts came out. normally you see one gone and it drags the wheel.
nothing gave it away ahead of time? noise? vibration?
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One was gone I limped it up the street and snapped the other one pushing it up the shop driveway
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Nothing I could hear over a aftermarket muffler and diff noise
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I went to brake hard heard the loudest money sounding bang and then my truck would barely move if at all I thought my transmission blew on a hard downshift to stop
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Only off thing was the soft pedal but that’s been a thing ever since I got my master cylinder done but I don’t think it was done correctly
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The main tendence is bad maintenance... 
strutaeng
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Dang! Never heard or seen this.
Where the calipers ever removed at any point? I know the front calipers on my 99 Silverado specs are like 150 lb-ft or something like that. And the bolts have some sort of thread locker. Admittedly, I have only re tightened them spec but have never reinstalled any thread locker compound.
I've never removed the rears though. They are still the original at 270k miles. A long time ago my mechanic replaced an axle shaft that got bent when I got a curb on a patch of ice. I guess one rear caliper at least got removed and reinstalled...
Where the calipers ever removed at any point? I know the front calipers on my 99 Silverado specs are like 150 lb-ft or something like that. And the bolts have some sort of thread locker. Admittedly, I have only re tightened them spec but have never reinstalled any thread locker compound.
I've never removed the rears though. They are still the original at 270k miles. A long time ago my mechanic replaced an axle shaft that got bent when I got a curb on a patch of ice. I guess one rear caliper at least got removed and reinstalled...
Damn. It never ceases to amaze me how things fail…
Had a bonded brake shoe where the friction material broke free of the metal backing plate and rotated around in the drum until it wedged itself on the other side. Wheel locked up very quickly…. That was a PITA..
Had a bonded brake shoe where the friction material broke free of the metal backing plate and rotated around in the drum until it wedged itself on the other side. Wheel locked up very quickly…. That was a PITA..
