Brakes and Suspension Q's

[adamtsiw]

Hello to all that read this. I'm new here and just wanted to see if you guys

could help me out. I recently purchased a 93 240sx hatch and really love

the car it has a few little goodies here and there on it But there

is one problem with it that I just can't seem to solve. When I brake I can

push the pedal down about a 1/4-1/2 of the way down and it brakes

straight, but once the pedal gets much farther than that the car wants to

pull the steering wheel to the right in order to keep braking straight. It's

led me to believe it's a bushing because it doesn't do it from the beggining

of the brake pedal travel. If you guys have any specific things I could check

it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Adam

[adamtsiw]

Well today since it was so nice out I decided to check the brakes, and the

drivers side rear brake is really weak hopefully tomorrow I can figure out

what is going on with it. Hopefully a brake hose clogged up or something

along those lines. Any suggestions would still be a great help

[r3v_v3ng3]

try bleeding the brakes

[modulation]

It seems like the opposite side it is pulling to when braking might have a seized caliper?

[adamtsiw]

Well I brought it into my brakes class on monday and I realized that the drivers rear caliper was leaking. The square cut o-ring inside had a little spot where it was by-passing fluid. I bought a rear caliper rebuild kit for both sides on monday, it came in today. So today I went ahead and rebuilt them and now it doesn't leak. None of the slides on the calipers are siezed up, they all move nicely. I figured after all of this it would solve my problem... but it didn't. Today it's raining here so I took her out and locked them up a couple times and it still wants to pull. It seems that the front right is locking up before the left... so thats my new mission. Figure out why this is happening. When I bled the brakes after rebuilding the rear calipers, it had good flow at each corner. So I'm not really sure what's going on, but since it was so cheap to rebuild the rears I guess friday in class I'll rebuild the fronts too. Hopefully that will solve my problems. If you guys have any suggestions though I'm all ears. Thanks for all the previous input

[johnnyballs180]

my first guess would be a leaking caliper on the opposite side it's pulling towards, the left in this case, and i got a second opinion too. further, if you checked all your pads and the time's coming up to change them soon, you might as well, front and back. i betcha this will fix your problem, and at worst you isolated some variables.good luck! don't hit any guardrails