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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?
>>
>