oo Taraus

[Mekanik]

No this taraus in not equipped with a diesel, but there is a tech. here that is really racking his brain and I know that there are a lot of really bright techs that frequent these forums.

We've got a 2000 taraus without abs in the shop that has a very hard brake effort. If you make a normal stop the pedal feels harder than normal, and the car does not want to stop. I drive a 2001 Taraus and this is how I got involved. The rear brakes are fairly new but the problem did not happen right after the brakes were replaced. We replaced the booster, master, front pads and rotors and replaced the height sensing proportining valve this morning. The problem is still there. They were comparing this car to mine. On my car the brake temps. are all about the same and on this car the rears were much colder than the front. Also they had a very hard time getting the brakes to lock-up. When I first drove the car, my initial feeling is that it has a booster problem, but the booster was already replaced. There is sufficent vaccum to the booster and the vaccum line was actually replaced too. Any help would be greatly appriceated.

[eastendpowerstroke]

four wheel disc of rear drum?

if it's drum check the wheel cylinders

Also check the entire length of steel line to ensure that someone didn't crush the lines when lifting the car

[Mekanik]

At the end of the day on Friday, this other tech. replaced the front Motorcraft pads with Ford pads and it fixed the car. This really confused me because he replaced the pads after the booster didn't fix the original problem. The car did not come in here with those Motorcraft pads. Also my Taraus has Motorcraft pads and it stops fine. Sometimes the only thing that matters is that the car leaves. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banghead.gif