Squeaking while braking
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Squeaking while braking
Yesterday I noticed a rather loud squeak while braking, the strange thing is that it is an intermittent squeak, doesn't happen every time I hit the brakes. This morning while driving through a parking garage I noticed a very quiet squeak that sounds like it's from the same source. I quickly looked at the rear drums yesterday and the shoes are pretty low but I doubt that this would be the source of my problem. I'm planning on changing the shoes and the springs tomorrow and I'm hoping that will fix my problem. Any other ideas that it could be? Thanks in advance!
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No the front rotors and pads are about 2 weeks old, I tried putting some of that stuff that is supposed to quiet squeaky brakes and changed the shoes and springs in the drums. Yet it still squeaks, I'm taking it in to the guy who changed the fronts for me because I'm stumped, I'll let you know what I find out.
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I took it to the guy who had replaced the rotors and pads, he went through it and checked the rotors, pads, and calipers and found no problems, even tried adjusting the backing plates a bit to ensure that wasn't rubbing and causing the noise. He checked the bearings and saw no issues. So I took it to the shop that re-geared the differential for me since I went to much larger wheels, they listened to it with me and said that's not the kind of sound a dif. would make and suggested maybe it was the U-bolts or the hanger bearing. They went through and said the U-bolts were good and the hanger bearing was no good, so they changed that out for $40. That still didn't solve the problem so they looked at the drums and suggested they be resurfaced. I didn't have the time to drop the truck off and since the drums on there were original parts with 147,xxx miles on them I picked up new ones on my way home and swapped them out with no effect on the noise. So I've submitted to the possibility that I'm just going to have squeaky brakes for a while. So I'm hoping that with time and some miles they'll work through whatever is causing the noise. Thank you for your suggestions! I'm done driving myself crazy trying to hunt down this mysterious noise! lol
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I took it to the guy who had replaced the rotors and pads, he went through it and checked the rotors, pads, and calipers and found no problems, even tried adjusting the backing plates a bit to ensure that wasn't rubbing and causing the noise. He checked the bearings and saw no issues. So I took it to the shop that re-geared the differential for me since I went to much larger wheels, they listened to it with me and said that's not the kind of sound a dif. would make and suggested maybe it was the U-bolts or the hanger bearing. They went through and said the U-bolts were good and the hanger bearing was no good, so they changed that out for $40. That still didn't solve the problem so they looked at the drums and suggested they be resurfaced. I didn't have the time to drop the truck off and since the drums on there were original parts with 147,xxx miles on them I picked up new ones on my way home and swapped them out with no effect on the noise. So I've submitted to the possibility that I'm just going to have squeaky brakes for a while. So I'm hoping that with time and some miles they'll work through whatever is causing the noise. Thank you for your suggestions! I'm done driving myself crazy trying to hunt down this mysterious noise! lol
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