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I rubbed my brake pads on the cement and look what happened


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They actually were. They were the rear pads so it didn't get as much use as the front. Wife was complaining of a grinding noise coming from the back. Oops. Luckily I got it before it tore up the caliper. I just slapped new pads on (made sure they didn't fall off) and it's fine.
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Nope.. what happened was when I put the pads on last year I pushed the piston in all the way (this pad was on the piston side btw) when I put the caliper on it popped out and wedged itself in the caliper and never noticed it. Braking was fine. Seemed normal. I've done probably 20+ brake jobs on my w-body cars and never had this issue. I was probably just in a rush and threw it on.

 

Did I fuck it up? Yep.. probably. do I care? nope. Do I think it's funny the way the pad wore? fuck yeah.

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Nope.. what happened was when I put the pads on last year I pushed the piston in all the way (this pad was on the piston side btw) when I put the caliper on it popped out and wedged itself in the caliper and never noticed it. Braking was fine. Seemed normal. I've done probably 20+ brake jobs on my w-body cars and never had this issue. I was probably just in a rush and threw it on.

 

Did I fuck it up? Yep.. probably. do I care? nope. Do I think it's funny the way the pad wore? fuck yeah.

 

I see what you did there. That pad is garage wall worthy.

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I see what you did there. That pad is garage wall worthy.

 

I've shown it to a few people and they're like.. WTF? :fuuuu: and then are like :lolguy: and then :fuckyeah: and I'm like :masturboy:

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quick question.. what does rubbing them on the concrete do? ive seen the techs at tuffy do it when i deliver parts.. just curious

 

It's suppose to "wear them in". Although I normally just use a piece of 1000 grit sand paper to scuff them.

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Sadly I have seen numerous people scuff on concrete. And I always laugh.

 

But when I worked at Midas they used duracrap autozone pads and scuffing the pad was the only way to keep them from making noise when stopping.

 

I did at least 10 brake jobs a day there and never had come backs.

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