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Hi guys,

Was driving home saturday arvo after work and was pulling up at a set of lights when suddenly the brake pedal shot to the floor. Using the handbrake I managed to get back home, though the car still had a little bit of braking power after a few pumps and pulled badly to the right. I jumped under to have a look and low and behold it seems as though the Left Brake pad has simply fallen out, it is wedged inbetween the wheel and the disc.



What am I looking at here. Should I just go and get a set of brake pads and throw them in or is the front left going to need a rebuild ?

Try and get pictures...

Regards,

Jemmy

I would try to work out why it came out 1st?

Bazszle

JemmyBubbles wrote:Hi guys,

Was driving home saturday arvo after work and was pulling up at a set of lights when suddenly the brake pedal shot to the floor. Using the handbrake I managed to get back home, though the car still had a little bit of braking power after a few pumps and pulled badly to the right. I jumped under to have a look and low and behold it seems as though the Left Brake pad has simply fallen out, it is wedged inbetween the wheel and the disc.



What am I looking at here. Should I just go and get a set of brake pads and throw them in or is the front left going to need a rebuild ?

Remove the wheels and have a look first. Is there fluid leaking anywhere?

I had the exact same thing happen when I threw a pad on cranny road, scared the shit out of me.

Had the same thing happen in a mates Shorty. When we got the new pads we found the backing plate was heaps thicker than on the old pads.

Ta guys,

Opted out of doing it myself gonna limp it over to a mechanics really-early in the morning..

Jeremy

also measure up the discs for thickness, had the same thing happen a while ago, drove 400ks home with 'minimal' braking....

Had that happen to mine turned out that caliper was ground down allowing the pad to fall out. The pad should stay in the caliper even if metal to metal on the disc. I suspect that mine had a wheel bearing fail or undo for a previous owner. I replaced the caliper.

Just replaced the front rotors and pads on my ute, fortunately as the pad was starting to separate from the metal backing plate - would have been interesting pulling up a fully loaded ute at a T road

Yea happened to me to. Just fit new rotors all will be fine.

aight...

Rears look good...


Ill get away with just doing the front eh ?

i had same happen to mine.

front left brake pad had worn to metal (just) and shot out of the caliper. Happened as I was coming off the freeway and I nearly wiped a heap of cars out.I just put new pads in and left it at that.

I check em more often now though

JemmyBubbles wrote:aight...

Rears look good...


Ill get away with just doing the front eh ?

wait to see what mechanic says.. brakes you dont want to get wrong.

bogged wrote:

JemmyBubbles wrote:aight...

Rears look good...


Ill get away with just doing the front eh ?

wait to see what mechanic says.. brakes you dont want to get wrong.

Mechanic will say it needs new pads and rotors for definate. Thats a dead cert as rotors are easy money for them, and they'll charge you $$'s for fitting even though it's only 5 mins more than doing the pads. Possibly tell you you need reco calipers too - more $$$$'s for them

Mate of mine took his crappy commodore to Brakes Plus for pads and they totally bent him over for pads and rotors (huge $$$'s) Then tried to tell him it needed calipers as they were sticking, I looked at it and it turned out the flexy hoses were falling apart internally and causing the brakes to stick on, cost $45 for a pair of hoses. They wanted nearly $500 for calipers

You either need an honest mechanic or very deep pockets

JemmyBubbles wrote:Hi guys,

Was driving home saturday arvo after work and was pulling up at a set of lights when suddenly the brake pedal shot to the floor. Using the handbrake I managed to get back home, though the car still had a little bit of braking power after a few pumps and pulled badly to the right. I jumped under to have a look and low and behold it seems as though the Left Brake pad has simply fallen out, it is wedged inbetween the wheel and the disc.



What am I looking at here. Should I just go and get a set of brake pads and throw them in or is the front left going to need a rebuild ?

Try and get pictures...

Regards,

Jemmy

at some stage, your truck has probably had bad wheelbearing issues . the disk has probably contacted the caliper, and has had its face ground off somewhat, ( the hoop part that goes over the disk. Coupled with a thin disk this can cause pads to fall out.

with the caliper fitted to the disk have a look at the distance between the face of the disk and the caliper directly around where the pad is seated.

Regards,
Jes