do brake pads make noise
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Melting Slicks
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From: Dyersburg TN
do brake pads make noise
should the brake pads on a 81 make clicking noises when the car moves? I notice front pads have a flat plate (spring?) on the back of the pads. The rear pads do not.
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From: Bartlesville Oklahoma
What you may be hearing is your limited slip differential. Sometimes if the wrong gear oil is put in without additive the clutches in the diff. will grab. You can buy limited slip additive to put in if this is the case.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Dyersburg TN
Just changed the oil, made sure to put additive myself
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From: Oak Harbor WA
Ujoints will make a clicking noise as well.
Are you sure it is from the front?
Not a rock or nail in a tire?
Does the sound change in speed with the vehicle speed or stay the same no matter what?
Are you sure it is from the front?
Not a rock or nail in a tire?
Does the sound change in speed with the vehicle speed or stay the same no matter what?
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From: Muskegon MI
Could be any one of those things. The pads shouldn't make noise while moving, but may "click" at the beginning of braking as they rock forward or back on the pin and make contact with the caliper casting. Sounds like you have shims in the front calipers.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: May 2003
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From: Dyersburg TN
pulled rotors, parts of parking brake broken, jammed and missing, never worked anyway so I pulled it all off. Never park on hills anyway.
does anyone out there with a automatic use their parking brake?
does anyone out there with a automatic use their parking brake?
