Horrendous Brake Squealing!!! Help!!
Pad Bevel
Same problem here. I Put on the Project Mu B-Force pads and they started squealing after about 50 miles. I even used the stock shims. So I took them back off and used the anti-seize last and they still squealed. I called Road Race Engineering since thats where I got them from and their website said no squeals
. They told me to grind a bevel on the leading edge of the pad. I took the one pad off and saw that there was a bevel already there so I didn't bother checking the rest. Then over the winter I put on stop squeal all around and as I was putting the last pad in I noticed that there was no bevel on that one??? Not worn away just no bevel. I guess I should have paid more attention but thats in hindsight. My squeal only occurs in moderate braking. My theory if anyone cares to hear it is due to the combination of the shim on the back of the pad and the lack of a leading edge bevel. I figure under light braking the force is not enough to cause the pad to bite on the leading edge and under heavy braking the force is large enough to utilize the shape of the shim to place more load on the trailing edge to prevent biting and vibration.
Note this is not fact and if you took the time to read this and have useful input please comment since my intent is to eventually grind the bevel if I have to. Probably on the next set of pads.
. They told me to grind a bevel on the leading edge of the pad. I took the one pad off and saw that there was a bevel already there so I didn't bother checking the rest. Then over the winter I put on stop squeal all around and as I was putting the last pad in I noticed that there was no bevel on that one??? Not worn away just no bevel. I guess I should have paid more attention but thats in hindsight. My squeal only occurs in moderate braking. My theory if anyone cares to hear it is due to the combination of the shim on the back of the pad and the lack of a leading edge bevel. I figure under light braking the force is not enough to cause the pad to bite on the leading edge and under heavy braking the force is large enough to utilize the shape of the shim to place more load on the trailing edge to prevent biting and vibration. Note this is not fact and if you took the time to read this and have useful input please comment since my intent is to eventually grind the bevel if I have to. Probably on the next set of pads.
Guys there are 2 shims...the metal ones and the organic ones glued to the back of the stock pads...for best results, carefully peel the organic shims off the back of the stock pads and re-use them along with of course the metal ones. BTW the arrows on the metal ones show the direction of rotation of the rotors. If you re-use all the shims, along with a generous amount of permatex copper anti-seize compound instead of the CRC crap that just burns off, you'll have good luck. That is all.



