new brakes... need help
09-30-2007, 08:53 PM
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new brakes... need help So the brakes were fine. but I wanted to put on the drilled and slotted rotors, so I did all 4 corners. Now Its a bit strange...
\ it feels like the fronts are gripping too much and the rears not enough, when you hit the brakes the nose goes down and its a bit easy to lock em up. the rears are a bit noisy too even when not braking... not too sure what to check here, any suggestions?
: the only thing i could think of that was a bit screwy with the install was 2 things
first i accidentally losened the brake line from the front driver side instead of the bottom caliper bolt, some fluid dripped out, but when I was all done, I had mini help me bleed that line.... but there's no bleeder screw on it so i used that bolt instead of a bleeder screw.
then the front passanger side was a bit strange, the new pads didnt fit.... its like there was just about .01mm too much material on the outer pad.... i had the pistons pushed in as much as they would go too, even double checked it to be sure... so I used an old pad there (plently of meat still on it)
\ it feels like the fronts are gripping too much and the rears not enough, when you hit the brakes the nose goes down and its a bit easy to lock em up. the rears are a bit noisy too even when not braking... not too sure what to check here, any suggestions?
: the only thing i could think of that was a bit screwy with the install was 2 things
first i accidentally losened the brake line from the front driver side instead of the bottom caliper bolt, some fluid dripped out, but when I was all done, I had mini help me bleed that line.... but there's no bleeder screw on it so i used that bolt instead of a bleeder screw.
then the front passanger side was a bit strange, the new pads didnt fit.... its like there was just about .01mm too much material on the outer pad.... i had the pistons pushed in as much as they would go too, even double checked it to be sure... so I used an old pad there (plently of meat still on it)
10-04-2007, 09:55 PM
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found it, on the bottom of the caliper
the problem eventually got a lot better/ went away... probably didnt clean the rotors enough, i did only have half a bottle of brake clean for the whole job.
the problem eventually got a lot better/ went away... probably didnt clean the rotors enough, i did only have half a bottle of brake clean for the whole job.
10-04-2007, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by easytoremember
found it, on the bottom of the caliper
Originally Posted by easytoremember
the problem eventually got a lot better/ went away... probably didnt clean the rotors enough, i did only have half a bottle of brake clean for the whole job.
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10-09-2007, 10:50 PM
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it pretty much went away after a few days. I think it boiled down to me not using enough brake cleaner..... serves me right to not keep stock of the crap i need.