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Old 03-24-2011, 11:10 PM   #1
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Exclamation Brake grinding

My brakes where working fine no problem alot of pad left I painted my calipers red and touched up the rotor with some black paint. Trying not to get to much paint on the surface. But it should just come right off. In a few stops. The paints gone but it's making a realy bad grinding feel! What did I do wrong?


Here is right after painting. Paint dried for 2 days

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Old 03-25-2011, 07:18 AM   #2
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Re: Brake grinding

1. clean off the paint
2.see the rust on the out edge of the rotor,that can get grindy against the pad(and the paint made that thicker)
3.check the pads make sure no paint is in/on them,and no crud under them
When the rotors get like that edge on them (worse up here) i will tap around the rotor to pop off the rusted edge,using a hammer at a 45 degree angle.then i use a special cross hatch grinder to smooth them out
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Old 03-25-2011, 06:35 PM   #3
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Re: Brake grinding

Theres alot of paint on the rotor surface - depending on the paint used you may have to replace the pads - since the paint may have saturated the pads.

You should pull them and inspect the pads - make sure that they didn't glaze over and get ruined.
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Old 03-25-2011, 06:49 PM   #4
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Re: Brake grinding

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Theres alot of paint on the rotor surface - depending on the paint used you may have to replace the pads - since the paint may have saturated the pads.

You should pull them and inspect the pads - make sure that they didn't glaze over and get ruined.
agreed. You should start with a clean surface, not let your brake pads clean the paint off, they could fail.
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Old 03-25-2011, 07:39 PM   #5
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Re: Brake grinding

I had a problem when I painted my calipers getting too much paint on them, causing them to stick and not release right. Don't know if that's your problem but it's somewhere to check.
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