The smell of burning brake fluid

[Sumguy]

Follow these steps, and receive a happy good time!

- Drive soccer mom van on highway to school (red nissan ftw)
- Discover, while on highway, that the car cant go faster than 50mph
- Pull over...find nothing wrong, continue
- Enjoy your new 35mph cap (that slowly drops to 15...to 10...to 5), and the many expletives shouted at you
- Drive 2 miles to the nearest exit ramp
- Hear a loud pop and see smoke
- :shocked: :brokenheart: :frown:
- Wait 1 hour for a tow truck, only to discover he was 5 minutes away the entire time
- Learn what a caliper is
- Learn why breaking two of them sucks
- Learn what a master cylinder is
- Learn why breaking that sucks
- Learn why the smell of burning brake fluid sucks

Well, maybe I was smelling the brake pads or something, but whatever it was...was not pleasant. Ah well, the situation could have been much worse. Thankfully it screwed up so that it clamped HARDER all of a sudden rather than no clamp at all.

 

[0roo0roo]

how does a caliper break?

 

[Sumguy]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
how does a caliper break?

I haven't a clue, looked like a huge chunk of iron to me. My dad is the one who did the fixing since he is a mechanic so I didn't question him.

 

[rezinn]

Burning brake pads/rotors smell pretty awful. Master cylinder must have been bad/stuck if it caused both brakes to be stuck on. Poor maintenance? Haven't ever seen it happen before.