Re: Brake question - car pulls to the left

[Bill]

<j...@myplace.com> wrote in message
news:iaq6t61bnn6dhifi4...@4ax.com...
> Recently when I step on my brakes, the car pulls to the left. This
> pretty much tells me it's a front brake. But I'm puzzled over how
> to
> determine which brake is bad. Does the car pull TOWARD or AWAY FROM
> the bad brake? I've been trying to rationalize this and everytime I
> think I got it figured out, I think I have it backwards.
>
> Which way is it?
>
> The car pulls to the left, is the left or the right brake the bad
> one?
>
> (Yes, I will check both of them, but I'd like to rip apart the
> problem
> one first).
>

I think it is the "owner" which is the trouble. If you would do a
complete service on both front brakes at the same time - new pads and
resurface / replace rotors, then this type of problem would not occur.