Brutal Rear Vibration
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Brutal Rear Vibration I've done some brake work before. I ordered new Slotted\Cross Drilled Rotors for my 2001 SS Camaro. The brake pads up front were installed 1 month ago. Installed the new rotors and rear brake pads. I had adjusted the parking brake to tighten it up and reassembled everything. As I backed out and applied the brake at low speeds to a stop 5mph to 0mph I get a brutal shuttering that vibrates through almost the entire car from what seems to be the passenger rear. I disassembled everything and set the parking brake back to what I believe it was. Still getting the vibration ... applying the brake at a higher speed, 20, 30, 40mph ... there is no vibration ... just when coming to a stop and applying hte brake. Ideas?
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I've done some brake work before. I ordered new Slotted\Cross Drilled Rotors for my 2001 SS Camaro. The brake pads up front were installed 1 month ago. Installed the new rotors and rear brake pads. I had adjusted the parking brake to tighten it up and reassembled everything. As I backed out and applied the brake at low speeds to a stop 5mph to 0mph I get a brutal shuttering that vibrates through almost the entire car from what seems to be the passenger rear. I disassembled everything and set the parking brake back to what I believe it was. Still getting the vibration ... applying the brake at a higher speed, 20, 30, 40mph ... there is no vibration ... just when coming to a stop and applying hte brake. Ideas?
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Well, I removed my rims, calipers, rotors .. sanded every last bit of rust on the hub, .... reset the rotor. Used majority of a can of brake cleaner. Removed and reset the anti rattle clips, reset the brakes after scraping them down a touch. (Again new Ceramic pads). Re-affix my passenger rear rim/tire. As a last touch, hosed off the r/r tire once everything was tightened. For now .. the noise is no longer there and I put 30 - 40 miles on to start the break in process on the new pads/ rotors. So the problem for now is gone. If it comes back and I run out of ideas I'll post. Thanks for the replies.
