To all those less frustrated than I..
I have a 1993 Grand Prix 3.1l. My problem starts a while back.. Our car had a very hot rim when we came back from a trip one day, it was smoking horribly, and throwing snow caused it to steam immediately. I took it apart, didn't find anything, but cleaned the caliper pins, re-lubed them, and made sure the caliper wasn't ceased - all was ok, but the plastic cover had melted where the lug nut covers go. Noted the heat damage and put back together.
Tried driving it and got 20 miles away when this happened again. This time, was at the mercy of the shop, who took it apart, found some heat damage and said we have no idea, there's nothing wrong that we see. I thought I could be wrong on the caliper, so I made them replace the caliper and the rubber brake line (it was cheap enough, and in the middle of a Michigan winter I wasn't doing it in a foot of snow.)
Ta-Da! It worked.. For a while. Lasted maybe.. 2k miles? Just got back from a 100-150 mile trip and my wife and I smelled something. Since we had this before I walked around the car and checked to see if any rim was hot, bam, the right rear was hot again. This time, I have no idea what to do. It's currently sitting in the driveway cooling off... Anyone have any other ideas? Could the wheel bearing be the culprit even though there's no grind? I've had bearings go before but with grinding, but those were in the front of the car...
The Car:
It does have Disc breaks in the back.
No ABS.
Tried:
New Caliper
New rubber brake line
Again any help would be appreciated. I will also remark that I know this forum doesn't cover my older car, but have been offered help by those who had newer models and knew some things about the older in a previous forum.
