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littlejim
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:50 pm

I fitted my new EBC Grooved and drilled discs and green stuff pads,
painted calipers and brackets,
I greased the edges of the pads and they where free in the brackets.
They where ok for a week but now they screech very loud :cry:
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:52 pm

when hot or cold

performance brakes tend to mate you just have to live with it

im taking it they stop ok?
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:55 pm

its all the time, people turn around thinking there is a big lorry coming to a stop.
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:57 pm

you are bedding them in properly - i mean ur not meant to brake heard for the first 200-300 miles of installing new pads
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:00 pm

I haven't done any hard braking, its when I press lightly on the peddal.
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:00 pm

You need to chamfer(sp) the edges off the pads.

I had the same thing when I had EBC stuff.
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:02 pm

the top and bottom or the leading edges?
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:07 pm

I done all of them about half a cm on each edge.
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:27 pm

I will have to try that :D
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:36 pm

You should'nt have to chanfer the edge's, they're on new disc's.
The problem you've got is because the pad's are lose.
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:39 pm

can you fix that or just leave them alone to bed in?
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:40 pm

And de-glase them aswell! Then break em' in again.
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:51 pm

I had the same problem with mine.EBC disks and pads.Took pads out and chamfered the for and aft edges and it was fine.
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Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:58 pm

littlejim wrote:can you fix that or just leave them alone to bed in?
Sometime's on the carrier's you'll have packing plate's and that is what take's up the gap between the pad and carrier.

The pad's will glaze once they get hot and cool down so you will be waisting your time with that, no offence :wink:

The green stuff pad's are good for braking but the complaint's of the brake's not working properly at low speed's will be because of the glaze on the pad's and then they get hot and brake like they're supposed to. There's no getting away from it i'm afraid.
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