Driver's Side Front brake caliper sticking?

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Oct 31, 2016 | 09:54 AM

#16

diskman

Senior Member

Joined: Sep 2008

Posts: 897

Likes: 12

From: Sioux Falls, SD

Year: 1999

Model: Cherokee(XJ)

Engine: 4.0L

I would replace both front flex lines anyway. They are 16 years old now and it's cheap insurance on preventing brake failure with a ruptured line.

Oct 31, 2016 | 06:50 PM

#17

machinisttx

Junior Member

Joined: Jun 2012

Posts: 81

Likes: 0

Model: Cherokee

Quote:

Originally Posted by montanaman

Also ... look for grooves worn in the rails on your steering knuckles. The rails are the things that the bottom your pads metal backing plates rest on. If the rails are grooved, it will prevent the pads from sliding in and out. It happened on my xj and I fixed it with a wire welder.

Here's a good writeup on the subject done by somebody else:

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f9/xj...rooves-924713/

Thanks for this tidbit. I've replaced almost everything in the brake system on mine and still occasionally have problems with one of the calipers sticking. I'll have to check this weekend.