Rear brakes

ljmlaw · Post by **ljmlaw** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:45 am

I am having trouble with my left rear brake getting hot. All the rest are doing fine. I have adjusted them and then replaced the wheel cylinders and it is still getting hot. Not as hot as it was but still getting hot. Is there anything else I should replace.

empiracer1966 · Post by **empiracer1966** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 6:17 pm

ljmlaw

Are you sure it's the brakes causing the heat and not the wheel bearings? Just a thought...

Brian

Blue Baron · Post by **Blue Baron** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:44 pm

Replace the rubber hoses in the rear brake lines. They become constricted with age, and the springs don't have the pressure to close the wheel cylinders and push the fluid back to the master cylinder.

empiracer1966 · Post by **empiracer1966** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:30 pm

Very good point Blue Baron!!
I've even seen them completly swell shut! and you wouldn't even know it by lookin at them! I took a pair of side cutters and cross cut the hose to verify that it was infact swelled completly shut!

And the hose wasn't but a couple of years old! Must have been a cheap replacement!

Brian