re: Brake Squeel, an enlightened approach.

[jkerouac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

re: Brake Squeel.  Not squeal, _Squeel.  As in Eek.  Not eak as in speak.

New pads and rotors was the right way to go, except for one thing.

     Did you clean the cosmoline coating off the new rotors before 
installing them?
The rotors may look like fresh clean metal, but if you don't clean the 
cosmoline coating
the cosmoline can burnish into the new pads.
     So if you installed the new rotors right out of the box, kiss those 
used new pads goodbye
and get new ones.  I used Mintex OEM compounds as sold by Bavarian 
Autosport and
and many other vendors.  Coat them liberally on the backside with the 
anti squeel paste Bavarian sells.  Let the coating sit at least 
overnight.  That makes it a dry tacky surface, much easier to install 
cleanly and guarantee no metal on metal from the piston to the pad 
surface.  Remove the rotors and scrub them down with a good cleaner and 
a scrubbie or a Scotchbrite.  Then put the new pads on your rotors.
  No more squeel.  If this procedure sounds bothersome, think of the 
brake squeel that sounds even moreso.

'jk

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