Ughhh more brake problems

[cookmeup272]

Ok so I have been having problems with my car since i bought it. Now the thing that has given me problems since day 1 has been the brakes. Each time i drove it, a different caliper would start to lock up. I started replacing them 1 by 1. Now i have replaced all the calipers except for the driver side rear one. I drove it today to see how it was running and for the first 20 minutes or so, everything was going great, perfect actually. As I am coming up i see that the car is decelerating at a greater rate than normal when i get off the gas...I bring it hope, jack it up, and start trying to turn the wheels. It is hard and in some cases impossible to turn the wheels. What could cause this? It cant be the calipers because they are all new! Please help!

 

[MichaelSuch]

Your brake hoses (rubber hoses leading to the caliper) may be collapsed, which isn't allowing the fluid to travel back up, it's keeping pressure on the piston in the caliper.

 

[Bud92gsx]

Feel all your wheels and if one is normal and the others are hotter, looks like yeah they might be sticking..Which could be just the lines like he haid being collapsed..I think you can get a steel braided line kit for pretty cheap..Or just get regular hoses and replace them..Or the calipers you got are also stuck which in case you can rebuild them for around $20 a peice..

Did you bleed out the lines when you replaced the calipers and put new dot3 or dot4 fluid in?Just checking..

 

[cookmeup272]

Ok yea i bled all the lines at the time of installation and the lines were all fine. What did it was that i had to adjust the thing on the pedal. Actually my dad did it while i was at work. The only thing now is that the pedal is always hard! I think in my shop manual it said something about the brake booster. Anyone care to shed some light on this?