[Shop-talk] Brake squeal

[Jim Franklin]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Eric at megageek.com wrote:
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>
> So I don't know what else to be looking at.  Note, this is for a  
> 2001 Ford
> Explorer and this is the truck that sat for a year while I was in  
> Iraq.

The rotors probably rusted and accumulated a bunch of cruft from not  
being used. First applicationof the brakes wiped it all off and coated  
the pads with it.

Clean the pads and rotors with some brake cleaner and then sand pads  
in a figure 8 to roughen up the surface a bit and remove any oxidation  
that may have formed on them.

jim