Hello All,

The brakes on my 300TD were feeling spongy lately and the car was pulling to the right under braking. I was thinking maybe a bad master cylinder. Before I got a chance to fix it, the left front brake did a grinding noise for a few seconds and then stopped doing it. Braking had gotten worse. When I got home, I pulled off the wheel and had quite a shock. The disc part of the brake disc had separated itself from the hub part, and was seized in the caliper, which had a pad which the lining had broken off. The hub part was spinning freely, which had allowed me to nurse it home. I guess the lining had broken before this, as that side of the disc was covered with road salt crust.

Has anyone else heard of this happening to someone?

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Denis

1979 300TD 189,000 Miles, now running WVO with a home-made 2 tank conversion
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