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Sorry for the radio silence the past month or so. Thanks for all the replies everyone! I just wanted to report back to let everyone know how things stand now.
So, In the middle of last month (January 2016) I serviced all the brakes on my car, including lubing slide pins, brake pads/shoes, brake fluid replacement and other things as well. In addition to that, I went ahead and replaced my right-front brake hose in hopes that that was the cause of my issue. I had my right front rotor resurfaced.
In the past, the vibration problem would begin to reappear within two to three weeks of rotor replacement. So, here we are about a month later, and the brakes are still smooth as butter! So it would appear that the brake hose was indeed the culprit.
Thanks again for the input that everyone had on this issue! Hopefully you won’t hear from me again in this thread, as that would mean the problem came back.
Sorry if it wasn’t clear, but when I referred to it holding pressure, i was referring to the same phenomenon you are, where the brake hose collapses and “holds” the braking pressure for some time after the brake pedal has been released.
Well, I suppose i’ll get a new rotor and new brake hose and cross my fingers that that solves the issue. If it doesn’t, well, I’ll be back here, I suppose. :pinch:
Thanks for the advice, nightflyr.
Thanks for the reply, nightflyr. I’m pretty sure it isn’t #1 because I do always take care with torquing my lug nuts, and #2 isn’t the cause, because I always do avoid big water puddles and things like that when I can, so I know I didn’t do anything of the sort to cause that amount of water exposure to hot brake rotors. As for #3: well, it’s not impossible that I brake hard enough, but, generally, I don’t feel like I regularly brake particularly hard. Seeing as how I replaced my caliper recently, and the piston in the new unit seemed to move just fine, I very much doubt #4 is likely. So, I’m left considering #5 as possibly the most likely cause of the problem, despite the cursory test that I performed to see if I had a brake line that was holding pressure after the pedal was released, which came up negative.
Does anybody else have any other suggestions? Or does anyone else agree that I should pursue the brake hose?
Thanks! I went and took a second look at my suspension, and, unfortunately, like before, I still couldn’t seem to find anything that was bad, not even the strut rod bushings. I think I was looking at the right part. I did however notice that one of my engine mounts is actually quite worn. I had noticed this earlier, but it didn’t seem like it could be so bad as to be making the clicking sound, but seeing as how I couldn’t seem to find anything wrong in the suspension, I went ahead and ordered the part and am planning to replace it once it gets here. The more I think about it, I think it is quite possible that it’s theis mount, because it ONLY happens when I’m in gear and get on or let off the throttle, which puts a fair amount of stress on the mounts.. It does NOT happen during hard braking in either direction, which doesn’t put significant stress on the engine mounts. I’ll post back later after the fix and hopefully this is the fix. there will be pics!