[Healeys] brake squeal

Richard Kahn tahoehealey at hotmail.com
Thu May 7 17:05:10 MDT 2015


I used the green stuff and never had any noise. It did come with some anti squeal pads but I did not use them. I really like the green stuff. Very little dust.
Rich Kahn


> Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 23:09:02 +0200
> From: per at schoerner.se
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] brake squeal
> 
> Hi
> When I replaced the rotors and brake pads on my car some time ago they 
> were really noisy. The rotors I put on are EBC and they are "dimpled", 
> e.g. there are some dimples and "ditches" in them. The pads I use are 
> EBC "Green stuff" and they had a "braking in" surface on them, once that 
> surface was worn out the noise is gone and the it brakes like a dream.
> 
> Per
> 
> healeymanjim skrev den 2015-05-07 04:47:
> > took the barn find for a long enough run yesterday to heat up the brakes and they began to really squeal.  have new pads, the softest they had, and they had a small sticky pad on the back of the metal so I made the assumption that they were the shims.  after I pulled the pads and put on that brake anti-squeal and did another run I swear it was louder.  do I need the little metal shims like on the bj8.  they have only a few miles on them, so the pads may have to wear in, but how long should it take.  since the rotors sat for 25 years, could it be the problem?  TIA for any help.
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