[Shotimes] weird brake squeal *or* I don't know how to put pads on

[Shylo McKinsey]

Ok...so...after re-reading what I posted after I got
some sleep. I meant this: Do you think the PADS could
somehow switched sides? Don't know whether that would
make a difference or not. Just thinkin maybe the pads
and their respective sides of the rotors could have
certain groves and whatnot. If they switched
sides...maybe thats where your noise is coming
from...just a WAG on my part...

Sorry for my idiocy and the confusion...It's the
holidays...and working in the airline industry is hell
right about now....I swear when people fly they leave
about 50% of their IQ at the door...

Shylo McKinsey

'91 White MTX

P.S. You may want to check your email settings...I got
the message you sent directly to me, but your CC to
the list came up blank.

--- Jason Hartbejm <at3hartberger@mail.com> wrote:


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umm... I think it makes sense... the piston is on the
wrong side of the caliper, that's what you're
describing, right? The pads look fairly new (I haven't
touched them since I bought the car a year ago) but
the rotors only have .974 inches or something like
that... .010 too little to turn again. Oh well.
There's still plenty of rotor there; I'm not *too*
worried about it (too broke to do anything about it
anyway). I know the piston pad went over the piston
again (there's this huge circle imprinted on the back
of the pad lol... it was pretty easy to figure that
one out), but I'm not sure the caliper itself went on
the right way. The bleeder screw's supposed to point
up, right? I'll check that.

 

If that doesn't turn out to be the problem, what else
could it be? Could the pad have gotten close enough to
the rotor hub that the bottom surface of the pad's
rubbing against that? if that's the case, wtf do I do
about it...? There didn't seem to be any way to push
those pads back up into the caliper... or at least
keep them there...

 

Jason

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shylo McKinsey" 
To: at3hartberger@mail.com 
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] weird brake squeal *or* I
don't know how to put pads on 
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 22:25:28 -0800 (PST) 

> 
> Could you have somehow swaped the calipers? Like put

> the "inside caliper" on the outside and vise versa? 
> Seems possible if the clips have rusted off. Don't 
> know if that makes sense... 
> 
> How "new" are these pads/rotor? 
> 
> Shylo McKinsey 
> 
> '91 White MTX 
> 
> --- Jason Hartberger wrote: 
> 
> > When I put my new struts on the front of Annabelle

> > (thank you everybody for helping me out with it!
except for destroying a 
> > half-shaft [LH], it went really well...), but when
I was replacing said 
> > destroyed half-shaft and put the pads back in the
caliper, I don't think 
> > I did it right. When I took the caliper off, the
pads just fell out... I 
> > know I put them back on the right side because one
of the pads had a big 
> > piston impression on it... but I couldn't get them
to stay in there and I 
> > kinda just threw it on. Well, now that it's all
back together, the car 
> > still stops fine (better then before... :|) but it
makes a weird 
> > grinding sound. It doesn't change at all with
brake pressure, so I 
> > think the pad(s) isn't aligned right within the
caliper. Is there any easy 
> > way to set the pad in the caliper so it doesn't
make weird sqeaky 
> > noises? Thanks... 
> > 
> > Jason 
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