Fresh cut rotors...and new pads...

[OrangeCrush]

Originally Posted by jroman201

but it still squeals when braking...only in the front...both sides...

Torque smorque.... unless the person that put them on is an idiot and severly overtightened or undertightened them, there's probably nothing wrong.

Chances are your problem is the brand of the pads. If you have organic pads, then don't tend to squeel but tend to leave tons of brake dust.

If you get a harder pad like ceramics or the such, they last longer but usually tend to squeel.

Other than a few name brand brakes, I usually go back and buy OEM pads.

They last great, don't squeel and don't leave a ton of brake dust.

When I sold my last H2, I had 103K miles and was still on the factory pads.

Mark

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I am with you Mark, on the OEM pads! I have some Hawk performance pads but hesitate to install them as there is nothing wrong with the stock ones.

[OrangeCrush]

Originally Posted by tomp

I am with you Mark, on the OEM pads! I have some Hawk performance pads but hesitate to install them as there is nothing wrong with the stock ones.

When I had 70K miles on my SUV, I came across a company that was going out of business. I picked up a set of Hawk pads for the front of my H2 for like 25 bucks.

Almost 40K miles later, I still didn't need pads so there they sit.

Originally Posted by Easy Ed

"Torque smorque.... unless the person that put them on is an idiot and severely overtightened or under tightened them, there's probably nothing wrong."

The idiots are out there, wifes car, new tires a few thousand miles ago, went to rotate last weekend, could not get three nuts loose with my impact wrench, torque was to be 70 ft. lbs. with these wheels, impact wrench 175 ft.lbs. did not remove them

I am not saying that torquing the lug nuts will fix his problem but something to look at because it was not mentioned and he also had the question about the "set screw holes" that was not answered. Just trying to help.

Ed

Ed,

I completely agree about idiots... I was just saying that unless his bolts were extremely loose or extremely tight, it shouldn't cause squeeling.

IMO, squeeling comes from glazing on the rotors or the composition of the pads.

I've got my money on hard pads. I'll bet that if he goes and buys a set of OEM pads, his squeeling will disappear.

Mark

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I bet we got our Hawk pads from the same place. Mine, plus the Powerslot rotors, are still sitting in the boxes.

[Easy Ed]

"I've got my money on hard pads. I'll bet that if he goes and buys a set of OEM pads, his squeeling will disappear."

Ours are the original set and have had no problems out of them in the 5 1/2 years that we have had the truck.

Good luck jroman201, hope ya get it taken care of.

Ed

[Easy Ed]

"Torque smorque.... unless the person that put them on is an idiot and severely overtightened or under tightened them, there's probably nothing wrong."

The idiots are out there, wifes car, new tires a few thousand miles ago, went to rotate last weekend, could not get three nuts loose with my impact wrench, torque was to be 70 ft. lbs. with these wheels, impact wrench 175 ft.lbs. did not remove them

I am not saying that torquing the lug nuts will fix his problem but something to look at because it was not mentioned and he also had the question about the "set screw holes" that was not answered. Just trying to help.

Ed