94LT1Bird

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just swapped on some autozone replacement rotors and hawks hps pads...went for a drive to break/seat in the pads and noticed a slight grind/squeak coming from the front drivers side.....got back home to let everything cool off from all the braking


and i find this....



one of those stupid metal clips isnt seating in all the grooves...im goin to have to bend it in like 3 places for everthing to site flush...

could that be the problem

1BAD02WS6

iTrader: (-1)

bad pic. but is the rotor hitting the caliper?

gun5l1ng3r

Either the rotors are not the correct diamater(the caliper would have been hard to put on) or one of your caliper mounting bolts came loose and allowed the caliper to rotate and make contact with the rotor(happened to me once while driving, very scary!).

94LT1Bird

iTrader: (4)

the two groves are from the rotor rubbing the caliper...the rotor is the exact same size as what i pulled off...i measured...i only removed 2 bolts to take the caliper off..and put the two back in...nothing moved...everything is lining up...

1BAD02WS6

iTrader: (-1)

You didn't take the caliper off the bracket? Then you might have damaged a shim/hardware during the install

94LT1Bird

iTrader: (4)

i took the bracket off...but left it all together...didnt remove the bracket from the caliper...just took everythign off the spindle

94LT1Bird

iTrader: (4)

also...i put some wheel bearing grease where the grooves are...and went for a drive...came back and the grease was still there...perhaps the grooves were already there and i never noticed when i bought everythign for the swap...i still believe that retardly shaped metal clip has somethign to do with the noise

SS SLP2

iTrader: (8)

my guess would be the clip, juat a quick queation, you did clean all wheel bearing grease and check that none of the greese got hot and ran down onto the rotor,?
Johnny