On Oct 15, 10:52*pm, Tegger <inva...@invalid.inv> wrote:
> Zephyr <davedejo...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:6f1d9568-717a-4ebe-ac6a-
> f2a952662...@v25g2000yqk.googlegroups.com:
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> > hey all,
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> > this past summer ( early august maybe) I replaced the pads on the rear
> > of my 03 accord.
> > the left side was worn badly, the right, not so much, but I did them
> > both with OEM pads,
> > this week my wife said the brakes were squeeling, and sure enough,
> > the rear left was making noise.
> > looking at the outer pad on the left side there is 1/2 of the material
> > worn off, compared to the right side already, *maybe 7,000 miles into
> > the new pads...
> > I haven't had a chance to take the wheel of and look at the inner pad,
> > but, I'm starting to think that that rear is dragging constantly,
> > so, *what can I do to fix this? *is a new caliper in my future or ???
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> > thanks for the thoughts and ideas.
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> > Dave
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> Not likely a bad caliper, but a sticky pin or pad.
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> See here for a (badly in need of updating) writeup:http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/rustybrakes/brakes1.html
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> Tegger
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Tegger, thanks for the beauty link, you put a lot of time in that
obviously...
hey, I watched that vid of you turning in the piston on the caliper
on the rears, I remember when I had to do that back in the summer it
took WAAAY more force for me, I ended up putting the screwdriver
lengh twise to the groove and used the shaft of the screwdriver in the
groove of the piston to turn it... ( did that make sense?) I tried to
turn it with the screwdriver normally, but that did not work at all...
the other side did turn a fair bit easier...
I know the pins looked decent at the time, and I could pull them free
with my fingers.

based on all that info I'm thinking that that the piston is a bit
sticky, If I remember right, the inside pad was much more worn than
the outside pad this summer, and I'm guessing the same has happened
again...