Larry,
Could these problems be related? If you are leaking fluid onto the the
brake rotor and/or have saturated the brake pad this could be causing
your brake pull to the left. This same leak could also be getting on
your header wrap and causing your smoke. If by chance you installed a
late model 5.0L, be sure you plug the oil dip stick hole at the side of
the block.
Best I can do with out looking.
Good Luck,
Mark
Larry Wright wrote:
>
> After 15 months, I finally drove the Garage Queen yesterday!
>I had a grease drip on both sides of the LF brake dust shield, so I wanted to
>pull the hub & check out the bearings. . . The seal looks OK, I may have
>overloaded the bearings earlier, I cleaned everything off & I'll check again
>later.
> Well, I do have problems. Could use some advice of clearing some of them
> up.
> * The brakes are cr*p. . . It also yaws to the left under braking, more so
> than the pull on the steering wheel might suggest. Bad front right caliper?
> Bad left rear brake?
>
> * Smoke! We have smoke coming from the left header in the area of the
> collector, and through a gap in the ThermoTec wrap, on the bottom, after
> shutting the car down. I know it was supposed to smoke when new, but it has
> been 3 years. And if it had been a leak caused by heat-failure if the
> header, due to using the ThermoTec, why the smoke after the car is shut
> off? I guess I could be leaking fluid onto the wrap;
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