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Right Front Brake Rotor Binding/Sticking - Caliper or Brake Line Failure?? 850

posted by  NateB on  Fri Jun 8 16:27 CST 2007
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My beloved 1995 Volvo 850 has been making a grinding noise only when braking.

Inspected the rotors with flashlight - the right front rotor show clear signs of being ground ( thus my grinding noise).

I am a fair backyard mechanic , the original owner of this 850, and have changed the brakes since new. The rotor and the pads are good. The brake fluid is flushed every 2 years.

I deduce two possibilities going on here:

1) The caliper piston is sticking ( but the car does not pull at all when braking)

2) The oiginal brake hose has collapsed internally - resulting in the hydrolic brake fluid not being released back into the master cylinder reservoir after releasing the brake pedal. Seems plausible -


Thoughts anyone ? Caliper ? Collapsed brake line? Other?
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NateB - 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo w/85K miles. Ask me, I've probably fixed it.






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