I installed my new pads for my first track day and wow do they stop the car nice but my problem is the noise they are creating while driving around town and not braking. please look at the photos below and tell me what you think.
here is the OEM pad VS the cobalt pad...notice the tabs on the OEM pad (wear indicators ?)

Close up of OEM tabs

Close up of Cobalt non-tabs

Excruciating grinding that the lack of the tabs are creating on the spring clip vs the edge of my rotor. Any insight on what I can do to mend the situation would be wonderful


-Paul

 

i bent the tabs fixed the problem...pop them out then bend them towards the pad a little about 1 cm maybe

 

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You need to remove that clip and bend it back some. The pad is bigger, just need to get the clip out of the way. It was a common problem we had to deal with at EXPO.

-Victor

 

tooo slow victor...

 

thanks for the reply, but wont that increase my problem? right now the clip is rubbing on the edge of the rotor, meaning the pads aren't extending past the rotor?

 

it will make that part touch the pad taking it off the rotor

 

kind of bend the ends to look like a somewhat V shape but not too much

 

thank you guys, any one have a picture to guide me where to bend?

 

 

kinda use the rotor wear marks as the point of where to bend at

 

cool, cause I couldn't find a pen, lol

 

Also, if anyone is running Spoon calipers, be sure to order the ones specifically for them, because they rely on those OEM tabs to keep the pad in place. If you try to run the ones with the shaved tabs, they clunk around like nuts.

 

Does cobalt friction have ones with the tabs?

 

Yes.

-Victor

 

I'll have to look into this further once I actually start driving the car.

 

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good info.

 

That's some good info.


Modified by get RIGHT at 5:55 PM 6/3/2008