front left brake shimmy after new discs/pads...abs problem?

[ojthecizzat]

The guy that fixes my explorer always does an awesome job. He's done dozens of brake jobs for me and my family. I have a lot of miles on the x (almost 90,000)...it's a '96 sport.

Anyway R. just put new rotors up front and new pads all the way around. The front left (caliper?) brake sticks and shimmys, and almost makes like a grinding noise..it's really alarming.

he said the same thing happened with another X and it's probably a caliper or an ABS problem, but either way it will reset itself or a light will come on after a couple days. It's been a couple days and nothing has happened.

His friend has to computer so We can look at is this weekend but I'm freaked out. Is this going to cost a million dollars? I'm broke and if there's even a temporary solution i'd love to know, thanks for you guys' help in advance, you've helped w/lots of things in the past, thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--tom g

 

[Jason_25]

LOL no it will cost you not quite a million. Probably closer to 30 bucks for a new caliper. It's probably not the ABS. But if you do suspect if you could always just pull the fuse.

 

[ojthecizzat]

pull the fuse and put it back in? or pull it and test drive it w/o abs to see if that's the problem?

 

[Jason_25]

Pull it and test drive it.

 

[ojthecizzat]

thanks, i'll try that...any idea which fuse it is?

 

[Jason_25]

No you'll have to find it in your owner's manual. Let us know what happens.

 

[ojthecizzat]

thank you i'll post more info manana.

 

[dogfriend]

I thought of three things to check besides the ABS:

1. Make sure rotor is not warped. I once got new front rotors that were worse than the old ones I took off. This can be checked on the car with a dial indicator.

2. Make sure that the caliper is sliding on the caliper pins. The caliper must be able to slide on the pins so that the brake pad pressure will be the same on both sides of the rotor.

3. Make sure that the piston is not stuck in the caliper. If you suspect that this is the case, it is probably easiest to go ahead and replace the caliper.