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Hi guys
Bought the wife a 2008 honda fit base, needs more work than I was expecting but here we are…
The front wheels were hot enough to burn my hand after the 100 Mile trip home (and it wasn’t stop and go!)
Its an automatic, even in neutral the wheels are kinda hard to turn so its hard to measure the brake drag.
The pads do NOT look old, still alot of meat left. Might be an illusion but it looks like the part that sits toward the outside of the rotor has more left than the inside part…. (guesses why?)
The guide pin s both move easy enough, top on both much looser than bottom. On one side the bottom pin likes to sit a quarter inch in from where the rest.The pads contact points weren’t greased at all it looked like, I fixed that but after a spin around the block at 60mph the wheels are pretty warm again.
My thinking is get a new kit because the lack of grease may have toasted the one one here.
But my fear is the cylinders in the calipers are pocked up and not retracting properly… If the new hardware kit doesn’t solve it (do you think it could?) is the next step new calipers on both sides?Car has 113k miles.
Thanks again guys,
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It does sound like your calipers are sticking. Here is a link for more help.
If you cleaned and lubed everything then the calipers would be suspect.Thanks college,
I was afraid the next step was the calipers…
Shiet… Off to advanced auto… Napa closed for day
[quote=”dosmastr” post=142144]Thanks college,
I was afraid the next step was the calipers…
Shiet… Off to advanced auto… Napa closed for day[/quote]
keep us posted on your progress. 🙂
I’m now not sure if the heat level is normal or not… All my other cars has rims that seems to really dissipate the heat (except that one time…)
These steelies… Hmm I think im going to do some laps and only use the parking brake to stop.. See if the front is still hot
You might try retracting the pistons into the caliper bores to see how easily they go in. If they’re pretty firm the pistons are likely sticking due to hardened piston seals.
Assuming the calipers are not sticking on their slides another possibility is brake line disentegration on the inner surface of the lines. This can prevent fluid pressure from backing off when the brakes are released and this problem can be caused by a combination of old lines (although an ’08 is not that old) and someone treating the calipers roughly by letting them hang by the hoses during a prior brake job. That can crimp the hoses and cause the inner lining to break loose.
The curious thing is there isnt a detectable amount of brake fade.
I would think if they were as hot as the wheel feels, that the stopping power would be impacted.After lubing up all the pad contact points (looks like whoever did the brake job less than 5k ago didn’t have any grease….), its reduced but now I have no baseline…. even my civic with the Al wheels get hotter than I thought they would, and I know they function well, its my daily driver.
As far as wifie’s fit, I can’t smell the tires after a drive anymore so theres that LOL. im planning on replacing the uh… what is that hardware called? slide clips? the “springs” that hold the pad itself in that are very smooth and should be greased… anyway, planning to replace those and lube them up good. See if that makes it even better.
While I do that I’ll pull out my C-Clamp and try to retract the calipers a little.
This site really is a gem. the fit fanatic site was 0 help.
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