That happened to me once with a drum brake, on SWMBO's Fiat that had been sitting for a year or two. Stuck on, smoking hot, pulled over, backed up a bit and hit the brake pedal hard, brake released and I had no more trouble. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On February 18, 2018 12:56:30 AM EST, Curley McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >Well there are 3 ways to get a stuck nut to move: 1) chemical soak; 2) > >Flame wrench; 3) nut cracker > >Perhaps "Smokin; Hot" (a term generally reserved to female Homo >sapiens) broke the rust loose. So now the caliper works? > >> Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> February 17, 2018 at 10:07 PM >> Well got done with dinner and headed home. It was dark and I then >> discovered I had no dash lights. I guess I get to pull the cluster >> tomorrow and fix the pot. I also had no tag lights so I stopped at >> wally world to buy some Dot 4 and some new bulbs. Fixed the tag >lights >> in the parking lot. Never had a brake issue on the way home. I >> figured it would have heated up about the time I got home like it did > >> earlier when I got to the red lobster. In fact, the LF wheel was not > >> even warm at all were as before it was smoking hot. I checked the >> other wheels and the LR wheel felt warm where as the RR did not, and >> none of the other wheels did. What is up with that? Why would that >> one caliper seem to lock up so bad it starts smoking, then later does > >> not? Is it possible the brake fluid change will fix this? I would >> think if a caliper was going to lock up it would not later be fine. >> >> > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
