**********Update: i bought new brake pads from the dealership and used the shims from that. It fixed the problem and everything is good. It wasn't that the rotor was loose or not torqued enough. Thanks for all the help********* I'm thinking i'm missing that metal bracket (shim???) that's suppose to be on the back of the pad, but the pad didn't come with news ones. Maybe i could use stock ones? any help would be appreciated. thanks http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d40/sit0015/?action=view¤t=MOV01269.flv
I believe that there should be metal u-shaped clips...but am not real positive, been a long time since I've changed mine.
At the top of the pad is a little notch that keeps the pad in place. On the caliper is a small clip that you have to force the pad into this notch, that clip is missing. It is either on the ground or attached to your old pads.
my friend was the dumb Ahole who threw them away. he said i didnt' need them. So i either have to buy new ones or if someone has extra laying around that they want to sell me that'd be great. thanks for all the help everybody!
scares me too.... considering he threw away a valuable part and he threw asbestos without disposing of it properly. I have some from a 99OB and I believe that they will fit (clip only) but I'm in Duluth.
yup shim clips for sure. that vid helped alot oh and bummpy btw, i happen to be one of those "tire gorillas" and i stand by my work as well as all of the other employees that i work with that our torque specs are right everytime seeing as how the impact guns we use are only capable of torqing to 65ft/lbs and we hand torque each lug to the right specs after that.
hey hey, don't get your feathers in a ruffle. that's great that you have good work ethic and put effort into your work, but if you're trying to tell me that it's not fairly common to take your car to the shop and have one of the studs ripped out by a lazy tech using an impact wrench, that's a whole 'nother story. It was never a personal attack on you anyway. All I was saying is that it's not armageddon for someone to use a tire iron to tighten their lug-nuts. To the OP, looks like you found the culprit. Good thing it was something simple, albeit really annoying since you'll have to basically redo your break pads.
yep receiver clips that hold the ends of the pad on top and bottom. you dont have any, need to put it back in. The shims on teh backs of the pads are relatively useless, i remove them on some installs, keep them on others, depending on how easily the pad fits.
we use impacts all the time on our lugs... WITH A TORQUE stick.. in almost 3 yrs we have not stripped or broken a stud..... its the monkey not the tools...
torque stick ftw....when I first got to this country I took the first job that came along for abbout six months to establish ourselves. Walmart Tire and Lube Express FTL! LOL But those torque took the thinking out of everything. Match size lug to appropriate torgue stick determined for the car hand turn lug several times to ensure no cross threading, pull trigger and don't stop til that torque stick stops. Once it stops, verify with a torque bar. Drive car, pull it in and verify again.
