Help- Emergency brake draging

Help- Emergency brake draging

08-21-2008, 02:58 AM

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DMcGalliard

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Help- Emergency brake draging

Hello to Dodge owners, I have had no problems with my 05 except today. On a short trip to Goodwill I noticed that the brake of the rear drivers side smelled hot, I had set the brakes twice but released them, they were hot on the rear drivers side(emergency brake side). I set and snapped the emergency brake several time hoping to get it to back off and it did not seem as hot when I got home. Two questions:
1) Is there any service that can be done to make sure it releases, this has not happened before. We were just up in Vermont where it was really wet. What can I do to make sure this does not happen again? We are headed out west in Sept so this has to be fixed.
2) Could this be piston sticking, the brakes are working fine and none of the other brakes are hot.

Your help will be appreciated, Dave Mc

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