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I have an early 90's honda whigh has failed a wof on brake imbalance. 

Car had been sitting for over a year. I pulled the calipers off and scuffed up the pads with a coarse file. Gave the discs a good hick up with emery cloth. Then cleaned where the pads sit, and regreased the slides. 

Didn't help.

then I pulled the caliper piston out of the opposite side to the one that's locking first /diving to and gave it and the caliper bore a once over with a scotch bite pad.

threw it back together and bled it up. Still does it. 

Could it be a wobbly rotor? 

Front shocks seem equal. (Left one its soft.

what else can I try? 

This car is a beater at best. So I don't wanna drop and more $ned$ on it than I have to. (It's going on marketplace the same night it passes the wof too)

Help.

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If its been sitting you might just need to go and get them nice and warm. We used to get a lot of cars fail at the testing station (mostly rear drums) that we would just go for a drive and get the brakes hot and they would pass straight away. 

Of course you may have an issue but most likely a sticky slide.

 

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