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When you have your car on the lift, check your wheel bearings. There should essentially be no rotor deflection.
Ray
Wheel bearings are all new. Just changed them out last month.
Also, there was no super squeal on the lift this morning when I spun the wheel. I'm assuming it's just some crazy bedding process right now - but I'll verify later tonight.
Update - Rbahr was right. Wasn't the pads. Isolated the noise on the drive home: rear passenger quarter. Got home, lifted it up, took off the wheel and found the issue in 30 seconds. Turns out when I reassembled the rear upright, the backing plate / heat shield thing was bent towards the rotor. It was rubbing against it pretty substantially. Pried it off the rotor and all is right with the world again!
Thanks for the write up. I am considering doing this myself as last time I looked, my dust boots were toasty looking. In the pics it looks like you went for the OE style dust boots as opposed to the blue high temp version offered by RB? Just curious, was there a reason for this?
No real reason for the regular boots. It was a little cheaper and (if I recall correctly) the high temp boots are negatively impacted by brake fluid.
All in all, every one of the crusty boots were still on the pistons and functioning to some degree. They clearly could have been replaced separately and accomplished the vast majority of the task. As I mentioned, my original seals were still good. And, looking at the pucks now, I'm sure they could have easily been reattached using some high temp glue.
I do like my new pistons/setup, but I'm still not sure it was necessary.
-td
Originally Posted by spiller
Thanks for the write up. I am considering doing this myself as last time I looked, my dust boots were toasty looking. In the pics it looks like you went for the OE style dust boots as opposed to the blue high temp version offered by RB? Just curious, was there a reason for this?
No real reason for the regular boots. It was a little cheaper and (if I recall correctly) the high temp boots are negatively impacted by brake fluid.
All in all, every one of the crusty boots were still on the pistons and functioning to some degree. They clearly could have been replaced separately and accomplished the vast majority of the task. As I mentioned, my original seals were still good. And, looking at the pucks now, I'm sure they could have easily been reattached using some high temp glue.
I do like my new pistons/setup, but I'm still not sure it was necessary.
09-07-2016, 04:28 PM
