Brake Grinding

1999 2.2 or 2.4 Its the 4 cylinder.Grinding sound passenger wheel area.Took wheel off metal shavings on caliper can hear fluid going to caliper the outer lip of the caliper is shiny from grinding with the wheel.What could it be?We are gonna change out the pads and look for a return hose as well.Could this be a frozen caliper or something else.

Ok Its fixed.The passenger side pads were down to metal and the rotor was shot in the back.Replaced that rotor and pads think there on right, and did the drivers side.Pads were good on that side as well as rotors.Hopefully we got everything together right but it does not rattle or grind now.

Did you check and grease the caliper slide pins, especially on the side of the car the pad was grinding on. A stuck caliper slide pin can cause the symptom you described and will cause it again to the new pads in a short time, if this is what happened. Check this out. Use the generation 3 skinny at the top of this forum for reference on the brakes. Generation 3 and generation 4 brakes are the same. If this is too much for your computer to download, go to Autozone.com and get their brake sections for the Camry from their website.

Mike

Ok yeh we took them out they goto the thing thats bolted onto the caliper there is 4 for per side.We put stuff on them and autozone we couldnt get their repair guides to help us.It was fun job finished in the dark with half of the block watchin us.It was my uncles car and he had to have that fixed before he heads back to NY.Ill try to find a pic of what i mean and you can correct me.

Sounds like you checked it out properly. Sometimes the pad on the piston side of the caliper just wears out a bit sooner than the other side. This may be what happened and your uncle just ignored the noise from the pad wear indicators or simply didn't hear it or the pad wear indicator on that brake just broke off. i had that happen once.

Mike

It was wierd because drivers side was perfect.He doesn't drive that vehicle alot he has a big chevy pickup his wife drives it so you know why that went unheard for awhile.But yeah he said it drives good now and hes ready to take it back to ny on sunday without worry.