brake squeal help, cant seem to find the source.... |
brake squeal help, cant seem to find the source.... |
Dec 9, 2008 - 3:45 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 24, '07 From Oahu, Hawaii Currently Offline Reputation: 23 (100%) |
my front right has been squeaking like the hell and i cant seem to find the problem.
took the brakes out and cleaned them with brake cleaner and applied that brake contact grease thing that's supposed to help ease squeal. that dont work...... looked and check the brake pad clips and bent them to they fit really snug on the brake caliper bracket. i lightly scuffed my rotor and pad to see if there is any type of glazing that could make a noise or what ever. scuffed both sides of the rotor i did scuff both fr left and fr right (problem spot) while the car was up. depressed the piston on both sides and blead the brake system while i was there and still the front right (pass side) still squeals. it squeaks especially when i apply the brakes at lets say 5%, and it squeaks when ever i turn to the left at about 3-15 degrees its getting really annoying, i dont have old brakes, just changed them recently, rotors were resurfaced at that time also. where is the noise coming from?!?!?!?! **could cheap brake shims that came with the new brake pads cause the squeaking??? -------------------- I don't normally drive fast, but when I do its on a curvy section of this island
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Dec 11, 2008 - 12:21 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 7, '07 From Portland, Oregon Currently Offline Reputation: 67 (96%) |
I don't have ABS either (which is fine by me, it's one less sensor problem to worry about) and I have ceramic pads, so it's definitely not a dust issue. Mine is a different squeal than dust-squeal or brake shim squeal. I have two shims on each pad, by the way.
Mine really isn't a squeal sound - I don't know a better word for it though. It sounds like a tiny version of the sound tractor trailors make when they brake. It's that semi-high pitched but "gutteral" sound. I really think it's the rotors generating the sound. It has occurred to me that I could have a bad wheel bearing that's causing the rotor to sit unevenly or something. There's no indication of warping, and the drums, when I pulled them to do the disc swap... crap, actually, come to think of it, the shoes off that wheel had worn down differently than the other wheel. Hmm. Maybe it is a bad wheel bearing? What other symptoms might there be? -------------------- |
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