The front passenger side brake caliper is sticking. It comes and goes but you can definitely feel it sticking and dragging the truck down. It also smokes when it gets hot enough. I'll pump the brakes and sometimes it works some times it doesn't. The pads are on correctly as well. I put a new caliper on about a month ago and before I did that I took an IR thermometer and saw the passenger side rotor was 800deg and driver side was 200ish deg. After the new caliper it was fine for a a few days then started doing it again. I took it to the shop and they said the brake lines look fine, bearings are fine etc. They did see the master cylinder leak that there was a recall for. Unfortunately my truck didnt fall into that time frame so I was out $$$ to get it fixed. Still no dice, the new caliper is still sticking..

Other than replace the caliper again, what else can I do? I'm not getting any codes for the abs system so I'm not thinking its that.

Your hose isnt twisted is it?

Nope, or at least that's what the mechanic said over the phone when I called asking about it yesterday. I plan on putting it on the jack stand this weekend to have a second look and probably just put another caliper on.

I just noticed when looking at calipers online there's one for right and one for the left side. Would that cause the issue if I put a left side caliper on the passenger side? I don't think I would have done this I just cant remember what side I bought.

Did you use caliper grease?

Yea. Greased everything. The slide pins, the pad clips, even the back of the pad.

Do the pads show any evidence of where the drag is occurring (top or lower). I'm assuming you used the same slides on the new caliper? Was one slide easy to come out while the other took some muscle? My guess is a slightly bent or deformed slide, or some build up in the slide hole. After already replacing the caliper and checking the lines I would look heavily into proper slide movements, just a little bit of a bind is all it takes. You could also have a deformed rotor that is the cause of putting the slide in a bind.

johnrth said:

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Nope, or at least that's what the mechanic said over the phone when I called asking about it yesterday. I plan on putting it on the jack stand this weekend to have a second look and probably just put another caliper on.

I just noticed when looking at calipers online there's one for right and one for the left side. Would that cause the issue if I put a left side caliper on the passenger side? I don't think I would have done this I just cant remember what side I bought.

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Yes because you would not be able to bleed it correctly, since the bleeder would not be on top this should be impossible to do.

Silly question, you didn't put the pads in the wrong place did you? This gen truck has two "humps" for the inner brake pad. Putting them outside makes it act really funny.

1agswitchin4lanes said:

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johnrth said:

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Nope, or at least that's what the mechanic said over the phone when I called asking about it yesterday. I plan on putting it on the jack stand this weekend to have a second look and probably just put another caliper on.

I just noticed when looking at calipers online there's one for right and one for the left side. Would that cause the issue if I put a left side caliper on the passenger side? I don't think I would have done this I just cant remember what side I bought.

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Yes because you would not be able to bleed it correctly, since the bleeder would not be on top this should be impossible to do.

Silly question, you didn't put the pads in the wrong place did you? This gen truck has two "humps" for the inner brake pad. Putting them outside makes it act really funny.

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I went ahead and bought another caliper this one came in a carquest box rather than a blank brown box so it leads me believe it's new and not refurbished. The other one was for the correct side so that wasn't the issue. The pads are on correctly. The first time I swapped the calipers I had a friend helping and he put the pads on backwards but I caught it before the wheel was put back on. The sticking comes and goes and wasn't giving me the issues yesterday after I swapped the caliper again so I'll give it a few days and of it continues I'll change the flexible brake line next weekend.