Brake problem
Posted: August 16th, 2012, 7:49 pmSo today I discovered that one of my pads had slipped off of the tangs that guide it on the steering knuckle. I figured well I could have made a mistake the last time I put it on or something, but I noticed that the wear on the tangs was getting awfully excessive. So what I did was filled in the wear by welding on it. Then I grinded the corner back to stock angles. What I've got here is a few pictures of the before with the wear. Maybe some of you can relate. I've known about this problem for a while, but I never thought it would get as bad to cause my pad to fall out of the alignment tangs.
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You can see the inner pad is misaligned.
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A bit blurry, but this is the bottom of the calipers and the alignment tang. Where's the inner pad?
[img]https://4tyjqg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1miFWW3UL_Qf3rIaV7mLIgsw96xKxcq7L_8EnxbTs9eRePQueLqzI1VIYFcZK5suwQK9KemMoPM0f4EJvfGugnoT1bRmF6QDOBKKcL0SMpGBOj7cnGT4wNaA/WP_000871.jpg?psid=1[/img]
That's the grove cut into my pad by the rotor. Lucky to find this early instead of 5 or 10k miles down the road.
I was counting on that second picture being good so you could see the grove that the pads wear into the tangs. Sorry for the lack of finished product pictures. I was tired. It was hot. I'm still apparently complaining about it... you get the picture.
Bottom line: Check your brakes often. Tomorrow's agenda: unibody cracks.
[img]https://4tyjqg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1mQYzcCJGYIAUeWaqmERkD2T50UqvMfhQtrysNX3YplNOWX04zUp4Ol2fCRvlQ8wI-o_jWH5W84lOmNOc__pmTZ8-HT1q1yjO2LJmM42vz3fligM7kPRwtMw/WP_000869.jpg?psid=1[/img]
You can see the inner pad is misaligned.
[img]https://4tyjqg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1m1848WisnPF6ynARkupYN6JNyMkL2fegGo53hDuHoLeFvLYgpXhtTJSTs9JHc-EiQAD-sbBvR4XpzUuNFri9Z_TfpdHaNYCmWBv8WDqXEKyjvYtILFIbQEg/WP_000870.jpg?psid=1[/img]
A bit blurry, but this is the bottom of the calipers and the alignment tang. Where's the inner pad?
[img]https://4tyjqg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1miFWW3UL_Qf3rIaV7mLIgsw96xKxcq7L_8EnxbTs9eRePQueLqzI1VIYFcZK5suwQK9KemMoPM0f4EJvfGugnoT1bRmF6QDOBKKcL0SMpGBOj7cnGT4wNaA/WP_000871.jpg?psid=1[/img]
That's the grove cut into my pad by the rotor. Lucky to find this early instead of 5 or 10k miles down the road.
I was counting on that second picture being good so you could see the grove that the pads wear into the tangs. Sorry for the lack of finished product pictures. I was tired. It was hot. I'm still apparently complaining about it... you get the picture.
Bottom line: Check your brakes often. Tomorrow's agenda: unibody cracks.