

| Subject: | Re: Brake Squeal |
| From: | Steven Shelton |
| Date: | Sat, 18 Jan 2020 09:22:41 -0500 |
I should have mentioned that I have Ate calipers. On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 9:01 AM Spencer Allen <soxndubs1951@gmail.com> wrote: > On my 85 it was a dragging caliper. When I had the van serviced the > mechanic freed it up and no more squeak. > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 7:49 AM Steven Shelton <shelton4@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've gone about 7,500 miles since replacing the front brake pads and >> rotors, and the driver's side has started squeaking. It's silent when I >> first start driving, but after a while, I assume when it gets warmed up, >> it >> starts a squeak-squeak-squeak. If I tap the brakes it stops, sometimes >> even >> after I let off the brake pedal and sometimes not. The Samba has a long >> thread on possible solutions to the problem. Do these symptoms help >> isolate >> the cause on my 1985? What exactly is happening when disk brakes squeak >> like that anyway? >> >
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