Only 1 rear brake pad wears out constantly

[Hairdo12]

For some reason, the outside pad on my left rear wheel is always wearing down to nothing. I replaced the rotors, pads, brake hoses and pads in the rear back in august 05. I have replaced the caliper on the left rear 5 times (one for each year I've owned the car) and this problem has been consistant for three years now. I can't get more than 8-10 months out of this pad. Oh E-brake cables are brand new too plus I now have the worlds largest collection of brake fluid from flushing them out. Granted I have a life time warranty on the pads... I am just getting sick of almost having to change the rear brakes every other oil change.

 

When I install the new pads everything is great for about a month, then the left wheel drags a little bit more than the right as time goes on. And yes I crank the E-brake religiously.

 

The only thing I can think of is when I put a new rotor on that wheel, I tighten the lug nuts on it and give it a spin and there is a very very slight wobble looking at the rotor. Maybe 1/10 of a mm. I have no idea.

[THe_DeTAiL3R]

You caliper slider needs to be greased, or caliper rebuilt/replaced. Mechanic greased mine up when he did my brakes, cause the inner pads were way more worn out than the outter (or the other way around I forget).

[GOT2B GM]

Just lubicate your sliders. I had to do that to my left rear caliper just last night. I could smell burning brakes and the rim was hot. I removed the caliper and worked some oil into the slider that was stuck.

[Hairdo12]

This is horse shit, damn caliper is only 6 months old. I got some new pads and took the caliper to the work bench and busted the sliders out and cleaned the bores out. Instead of the normal slider grease I'm gonna try some high temp silver anti seeze. I swear I do this so often I can change brakes faster than finding all the tools to do the job. Thank god for life time warranty on pads.

[Crazy K]

don;t use antisieze! use high temp caliper grease, availible at advanced. Get a grip! One of my 95 CS's rear Hubs has some rust scale that it annoying me by causing the rotor to not settle flush. maybe you have the same problem?

 

On a warm day I will eventaully remove all the Lugs, attack the hub with a grinder and stick new studs in and maybe the probelm will be gone.