I took the old pads out and the outside pad is almost new thickness; the inner pad is within a hairs breadth of completely gone. This feels really wrong. My guess is that the inner pad has been dragging. No obvious lubrication on the cuts where the pads ride on the caliper. Rusty. I have cleaned off the rust and will use a rust conversion product followed by moly lube. Can anyone help explain how I should fix this before the new pads are installed?

I noted when I took off the bolts to remove the caliper that one of the bolt springs has almost no force and the other springs right back. Could this be related?

Guidance appreciated. Good weather tomorrow, followed by a week of rain.

I wrote a tech article on this some time back. Floating calipers need to truly float - that means moving freely on their guide pins/rails. Over time they dont.

I'm not sur eif Kris got around to posting it. Check over on tech, and if not, email me for the pdf version.

Keep in mind that on a floating caliper the piston acts only on the inner pad. Its that "equal and opposite raction" that calls the outer pad into play. That onyl works if the friction may be assumed near zero.

G