So I have these new brakes on the rear. They are SN95 solid rotor style. All new/reman parts. I went out to try to dial them in today. I did lots of aggressive braking, stopping to open up the PV (it started fully closed), and trying again. Well, the valve is now at the end of it's adjustment. Wide open, I assume. The rear end still is not trying to come around on me like I remember it doing when i went to do the same procedure on my last set of brakes (whole different setup). So what's the deal? My rear brakes don't seem to be functioning. The parking brake DOES hold, so I'm confused.
I was about to jack up the car and go to look at potentially adjusting the pistons outward so there's less space between them and the rotors, but i'm a bit wary of that because on my last set of brakes i had a bad sticking problem with my rear calipers. The first time i drove the car with this current set of brakes, i noticed what I thought was excessive heat at the left rear wheel (and very little at the right rear), so i adjusted the piston inward on that one.
For a little background, I had SVO rear brakes with used calipers for years and then swapped to the current SN95 style. I realize not everyone does that sort of thing, so it's probably necessary information here.
So, what do you guys think? Maybe I shouldn't have adjusted the left rear piston inward because it was just a balance problem? And now NEITHER is functioning as a result? If that's the case then why does the parking brake hold? Could it be a tire thing? I have MUCH better tires on the car this time around. Maybe they're not allowing the rear to grab unevenly or something?
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