PowerStop Calipers: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

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acolic

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Hi

While coming home with my son from a hockey game the front wheels seem to lock up.

I pulled off and it took a bit of troubleshooting with my son videotaping my front tires to figure out what was going on.

Can anyone guess what’s wrong with this picture?

Look carefully.

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Looks like the caliper has left home and is out on the town, and it's now in a jam! Caliper bolt missing?

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100 points for you.

It’s at the shop because I don’t have any time to deal with this but it looks like the lower caliper bolt sheared off and when you brake the caliper swings outwards and pushes against the inside of the rim.

I have never had this happen or even heard of this happening.

I’m lucky this didn’t happen in the fall while I was down some remote logging road hunting.





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:cheers:You buying the beers?

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I do wonder what people do when they have a breakdown deep in the woods while they are off-roading.

Leave the truck there? Because you’re not getting a tow truck in some areas.

I guess I could have jacked up the truck , taking the tire off, and hammered something in to act as the caliper bolt for the time being.


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Never leave home without tie-wraps, toilet paper, duct tape and a screw-driver. It’s a motorcycle kinda “rules of tour” thing. Oh, ...and beer. Ya, .....lots of beer.

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