Brakes grabbing on 01 dakota

From : rh

Q: i just replaced the rotors and pads on my 01 dakota quad cab 3.9 last summer.i noticed it beforebut even more since i changed them that there seems to be no gradual brakingits all at the end of the pedal travel and it grabs hard on both sidesnot just one. i havent checked the rears yet as we had a ice stormbut i really noticed this in the snow lol. is this just how the dakota stops or is this a sign of a bad master cylinderetc its like the first 90% of the pedal travel doesnt do much and then when you push harderthey lock up. check your rear brakes to make sure they are adjusted properly. while you are in there clean out any brake dust that may have accumulated. dont forget to check for leaking wheel cylinders or axle seals either one will cause the brakes to grab. if the brakes front and rear seem fine then i would look at the master cylinder next. .

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From : john corliss

rh wrote i just replaced the rotors and pads on my 01 dakota quad cab 3.9 last summer.i noticed it beforebut even more since i changed them that there seems to be no gradual brakingits all at the end of the pedal travel and it grabs hard on both sidesnot just one. i havent checked the rears yet as we had a ice stormbut i really noticed this in the snow lol. is this just how the dakota stops or is this a sign of a bad master cylinderetc its like the first 90% of the pedal travel doesnt do much and then when you push harderthey lock up. does it grab evenly or when it does it does it pull to one side if the latter then i agree with rh that its probably brake fluid leakage getting on the rotor. -- john corliss .

From : peterd

on wed 5 mar 2008 205958 -0500 rh nospam@spam.com wrote i just replaced the rotors and pads on my 01 dakota quad cab 3.9 last summer.i noticed it beforebut even more since i changed them that there seems to be no gradual brakingits all at the end of the pedal travel and it grabs hard on both sidesnot just one. i havent checked the rears yet as we had a ice stormbut i really noticed this in the snow lol. is this just how the dakota stops or is this a sign of a bad master cylinderetc its like the first 90% of the pedal travel doesnt do much and then when you push harderthey lock up. 1. does this have abs 2. did you check the rear brakes at all 3. proportioning valve working right id guess the rear brakes are not working much or at all. .

From : mike

tbone wrote i find that hard to believe miles. the way that you described your childhood shows that your parents liked to be involved with the upper classes so i really doubt that they delt much with the poor in mexico. oh geez. there goes your warped biased arrogant views again. i lived in mexico most of the summers and often through the rest of the year as a kid. in an old old airstream trailer that wasnt very big. yes we dealt with the poor in mexico quite a bit in those years. your hatred arrogance blinds you to reality. lol sorry miles but you really dont have a clue. im sure that in the areas that you hung out in mexico many of the people there are happy but that does not make it the whole country. never said it did. but you paint a picture of a country in dire straights of poverty and filth and its nothing of the sort. you are vastly mistaken if you feel the majority of mexicans are dirt poor starving and miserable. the reason miles is that they didnt have the privilege to go to school as for many there were no schools in the area those are the remote villages with very small populations. thats not the majority of mexico you claim are miserable. even in those villages not everyone is miserable. many despise the cities where jobs and to you better living standards exist. some want the remote simple old fashioned village life. lol nobody ever said that everyone in mexico wanted to leave miles. but with over 40% at or below the poverty line so 40% must be miserable huh the usa has about 15% living below the poverty level. however most at around the poverty level have a home car tv a/c and more. sorry miles but thats how any company stays in business and every manager does or at least tries to do that and no matter how much tech you have without skilled hard working people you will still go under so it seems that your employees are investing the same amount as you do. wtf are you talking about there you go again thinking that someone who starts and runs a company should make no more return on their investment than the door greeter at walmart. after all that greeter invested the same amount according to you. ya lets all live in a world where everything is equal no rich no poor everyone taken care of. why is it then that they unlike you get nothing more than a paycheck if you invest then you should get a return right miles returns on investment comes with taking risk. generally the higher youre willing to risk then the higher the return on your investment. an employee isnt taking the same risk as someone who puts their own paycheck back into the company. if they decide to go elsewhere what do they loose if an investor walks away they loose everything they invested. they take a higher risk. yawn your spin is really getting old. i didnt say that the receptionist could or should manage the company. what i said was that just like you he or she is doing her job to the best of their ability and since you are doing nothing more than your job just like everyone else why is it that you are the only one investing or should i say the only one that will get anything long term from that investment. because i dump a large share of my own money back into the company instead of my pocket. i started the company with money earned over many years of hard work and living near poverty. yet to you im entitled to the same returns as a receptionist who started yesterday. this one really isnt working either but that is not the point. the point or the question rather is why do these buisness owners like you refuse to pay a living wage like me huh i pay well above market value and give well above average raises and benefits. tell me tom how much should the walmart door greeter type unskilled job earn $10/hr 20 30 what tom name it without being vague or generalizing. lol sorry miles but i simply dont believe you. $10 an hour is not a living wage where you are and you know that. thats minimum wage at my company for a totally unskilled off the street job. so whats a living wage to you $15 $20 $30 so an unskilled worker like a walmart greeter should make a livable wage of $20/hr youre being absurd here tom! if it wasnt for many of these programs miles there would have been a revolution and i fear that we really are not all that far from it now. oh bull. these programs have never reduced poverty. if anything they have raised it because they oppress people through dependency on government rather than themselves. i asked you to give a solid example of a program that reduced poverty and you cant even name one. but everyone who works full time should be paid a living wage. so pay based on need rather than ability. great in concept fails in reality where its been tried. what do you think would happen if we made the minimum wage $25/hr think there would be less poverty guess ag

From : rh

on wed 5 mar 2008 205958 -0500 rh nospam@spam.com wrote i just replaced the rotors and pads on my 01 dakota quad cab 3.9 last summer.i noticed it beforebut even more since i changed them that there seems to be no gradual brakingits all at the end of the pedal travel and it grabs hard on both sidesnot just one. i havent checked the rears yet as we had a ice stormbut i really noticed this in the snow lol. is this just how the dakota stops or is this a sign of a bad master cylinderetc its like the first 90% of the pedal travel doesnt do much and then when you push harderthey lock up. 1. does this have abs 2. did you check the rear brakes at all 3. proportioning valve working right id guess the rear brakes are not working much or at all. no i havent checked the rears yet. hopefully snow will melt this week so i can do themi hate rear brakesi might take it somewhere. .

From : rh

rh wrote i just replaced the rotors and pads on my 01 dakota quad cab 3.9 last summer.i noticed it beforebut even more since i changed them that there seems to be no gradual brakingits all at the end of the pedal travel and it grabs hard on both sidesnot just one. i havent checked the rears yet as we had a ice stormbut i really noticed this in the snow lol. is this just how the dakota stops or is this a sign of a bad master cylinderetc its like the first 90% of the pedal travel doesnt do much and then when you push harderthey lock up. does it grab evenly or when it does it does it pull to one side if the latter then i agree with rh that its probably brake fluid leakage getting on the rotor. -- john corliss no its definitely eveni am thinking the rears might not be working. .