Posted: 5/25/2010 5:27:31 PM EDT
| When you change out your disc brake pads, should the new pad be clear enough to allow the tire to rotate smoothly? Should there be some clearence between the pad and the rotor? Or will the pad, when new, ever so slightly touch the rotor?? |
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When you change out your disc brake pads, should the new pad be clear enough to allow the tire to rotate smoothly? Should there be some clearence between the pad and the rotor? Or will the pad, when new, ever so slightly touch the rotor?? It will settle in just fine. |
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You will have drag on the rotor even with new pads. Disc brake calipers are not spring loaded like a
drum brake, at least none of the foreign or domestic cars I've worked on in the past 30 yrs. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Once you install the new pads, pump the pedal as was previously stated. Try rotating the tire. It should rotate but with drag. If you can't rotate it you have a problem. Check to make sure everything was assembled correctly. If so, your caliper is hanging up. Best just to replace it then. |
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Quoted: You will have drag on the rotor even with new pads. Disc brake calipers are not spring loaded like a drum brake, at least none of the foreign or domestic cars I've worked on in the past 30 yrs. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Once you install the new pads, pump the pedal as was previously stated. Try rotating the tire. It should rotate but with drag. If you can't rotate it you have a problem. Check to make sure everything was assembled correctly. If so, your caliper is hanging up. Best just to replace it then. You are only slightly off on that. The pistons do "return" a bit when you take your foot of the brake. But we are talking clearance in the thousands of inches. Brake quiet glues the pads to the caliper to help pull them off to get rid of the noise of drag a bit. |