Help with new brakes!
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Help with new brakes! Just recently I put some Hawk slotted rotors on my 1998 Trans am with raybestes ceramic brake pads. Everything turned out fine except when i make a RIGHT hand turn it makes a grinding noise. I want to know what I can do to fix this before I take it somewhere and they charge me and arm and a leg for basically nothing. Or is there anything wrong with it, and its just the new rotors with the new pads breaking in?
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From: walnut creek, ca
I had bad luck with the Raybestos ceramic pads. Mine had a grinding/squeeling noise after I installed them at first. It turned out that one of the shims that came in the kit had a manufacturing defect. The machine didn't cut out one of the sections that was supposed to be removed and it was just barely rubbing on the rotor. Put in a new one and it went away. Maybe you should put it up on jackstands on spin each wheel to see if you hear anything rubbing. Worked for me.
