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Re: brake squeek

To: "MG list" <mgs@autox.team.net>, "MonteMorris" <mmorris@nemr.net>
Subject: Re: brake squeek
From: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@byu.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 20:42:35 -0600
My experience is that disc brakes always drag a little..  If I am not
mistaken, that is how they stay adjusted.  Your drums should spin
freely however.

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 20:17:38 -0500, MonteMorris wrote:

>When I pulled in the garage, I noticed a "hot" smell coming from the front
>driver side and traced it to the wheel. I noticed that the brake squeeked a
>lot on the trip and would stop when I slightly applied the brakes. But the
>wheel was where the smell was coming from. I jacked up the front and  spun
>the wheel; it drags some (Barney helped me install new wheel bearings, king
>pins, bushings, etc. last summer, so they are all new).  The wheel has no
>wiggle when grabbed at the top and bottom, but shouldn't the wheel spin
>fairly freely? Am I most probably needing to add a shim to loosen it up a
>little (or is it remove a shim, I can't recall)?
>Thanks,


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