Welcome to the forum hawaiian.............

Re your post......Firstly, its considered good manners to introduce yourself and your vehicle in the new members section before diving in.
Secondly, from your post, as you haven't said, I assume that you own an XJ. Is that correct?

Please fill us in a little.............If thats the case the post is in totally the wrong section and needs to be moved to either the XJ section or possibly General tech help.

Please respond


Thanks

Jim

 

a 2004 what? miles? package? who did the work? what was replaced? has it done this from day 1? we need more details to help. fill us in.

 

Well sounds like your caliper unit may have been bent. Did you notice your pads or disk on the affected side chewed up? also check to see if your wheel is rubbing anywhere in your wheel well, if this is the case chances are you something slightly bent, might be better off getting a new front corner assembly. When this happened to me, I changed pieces one by one which was expensive. It was much easier to buy the whole new strut, spindle, caliper, breaks, tie rods ets.. If your wheel is rubbing make sure u get it fixed asap or your tire will wear un evenly.

 

also when the caliper and carrier touch the rotor.. especially on turns i have seen body shops leave the axle nut loose causing the carrier to move and touch the rotor.. scrap yard maybe.. from dealer very expensive..

 

i bet your caliper spliding pins are bent is why its only touching one side. All that pressure could very well have caused the crack as well.

 

Check out this place and compare to dealer's prices, they are about 1/2 theprice of the dealer's


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