Disc brake pads do drag very slightly at all times.  The pads do not
"pull back" when you release the brake pedal, they just stop squeezing.

Allan
--
1983 300D


On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:02:03 -0700, "Alex Chamberlain"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I just got done jacking up the newly acquired POS 300E and getting
> under it as part of assessing its immediate needs prior to placing a
> Rusty order.  Took the back left wheel off first because it was making
> awful scraping noises every time I hit the brakes.  I have never seen
> pads with so little pad left on them, nor a rotor with such an uneven
> surface.  Yikes.  That explains it.  One funny thing: turning the same
> wheel by hand (with the shifter in neutral and the parking brake off)
> produced a very faint version of the same metal-on-metal scraping
> sound.  Dragging caliper?  It seemed like the wheel offered a normal
> amount of resistance to being spun by hand.  I could have put the
> other 124 up in the air and compared the two side-by-side, but I was
> too lazy to play musical jackstands.  Bad bearing?  Dry differential?
> (It's visibly leaking, who knows for how long.)
> 
> Alex Chamberlain
> '87 300D Turbo, '86 300E, et al.
> 
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