Disk Brakes Squealing

[mach1000]

Anyone have a solution for stopping the front disk brakes from squealing? I'm getting it at very low speed stops. Just touching the brake pedal. I have all new rotors, pads, and hardware. Everything is greased with synthetic grease. I cleaned and greased everything twice and am still getting the noise. Should I try different pads?

 

[caspianwendell]

How many miles are on them? Sometimes it takes a few day to break in the pads.

 

[Silverback]

It's usually the pads vibrating in the calipers. Have you tried some of the anti squeal pad backings?

 

[JimNiki]

How are the rotors? Not glazed?

I'm using the bendix stripe pads...very good...

I'd give the pads a little lick with 360 sandpaper, can't hurt them...

 

[Don C]

Were the rotors completely de-greased? Just a little grease will glaze over the pads. I would scuff the pads and rotors and clean the rotors.

 

[mach1000]

Thanks for the responses. The rotors were cleaned with brake cleaner. I did scuff them up again when I had the brakes apart the second time. I probably have a hundred miles or so on them. They didn't make noise at first. I haven't tried the anti squeal pad backings, not sure what they are. Figured the grease would do the same.

 

[turtle5353]

There might just be a hard spot in the pad. I had a set of brake pads that squeeled and squeeled. i did all of the things mentioned above and nothing helped. It was just on my beater work car so i just turned up the radio. after a few hundred miles the pads wore in and the squeel went away. My buddy is a master ford tech at a local dealership and said he has seen that before. Alot of times the customers bring them back in and they put another set of pads on and the squeel goes away. Just a hard spot in the brake pad material. Little more sanding could help or just swap out the pads.

 

[CZ-75]

I switched to organic pads, and my squeeks went away