REPLACE THE CALIPER???

[BOXCARS]

I'm not sure what shims you mean, but I have decided to put small 16 gauge shims behind the brake pad at the bottom of it, between the pad and caliper, hopefully, to push the bottom of the pad close to the rotor.

 

[pontiacgp]

I'm not sure what shims you mean, but I have decided to put small 16 gauge shims behind the brake pad at the bottom of it, between the pad and caliper, hopefully, to push the bottom of the pad close to the rotor.

you shimmed a brake pad? I suggest if there is a problem with the brakes you fix them properly.

 

[BOXCARS]

you shimmed a brake pad? I suggest if there is a problem with the brakes you fix them properly.

There will be no problem. As a matter of fact, the shims have corrected the outside pad to rotor contact. There was no problem with stopping and as the pads seat in, stopping power increases.

 

[pontiacgp]

There will be no problem. As a matter of fact, the shims have corrected the outside pad to rotor contact. There was no problem with stopping and as the pads seat in, stopping power increases.

good luck but personally I do not like band-aid solutions especially when it comes to brakes

 

[BOXCARS]

Well, really, you never offered any suggestion concerning the problem I described which wasn't serious to begin with.

 

[pontiacgp]

I did suggest to fix it properly, you posted the pads are wearing unevenly so there is obviously a problem which can only be resolved with taking the brakes apart to see what is causing the uneven wear.

 

[BOXCARS]

I did suggest to fix it properly, you posted the pads are wearing unevenly so there is obviously a problem which can only be resolved with taking the brakes apart to see what is causing the uneven wear.

Well, everything is new and as you can see in the photo I provided, the outside pad only is not making flush contact all the way down. As I said earlier, who's to say this isn't common until pads wear in, and if you had this problem, unless you had wheels you could see through, and big rotors, how would you even know? I have answered my own question. It's not a problem and I've made it so the pad would have flush contact by shimming it. I could do nothing, and the pad will wear in. Eventually, in a few hundred miles, I'll probably remove the shims.

 

[383_GrandPrix]

Well, everything is new and as you can see in the photo I provided, the outside pad only is not making flush contact all the way down. As I said earlier, who's to say this isn't common until pads wear in, and if you had this problem, unless you had wheels you could see through, and big rotors, how would you even know? I have answered my own question. It's not a problem and I've made it so the pad would have flush contact by shimming it. I could do nothing, and the pad will wear in. Eventually, in a few hundred miles, I'll probably remove the shims.

If you remove the shims later on you will come back to the same problem as the pad will be worn to the angle with the shims and removing them will bring it back to the previous angle.

 

[383_GrandPrix]

Did you ever "bed in" your new brakes?

http://www.jegs.com/InstallationInstructions/800/884/884-A2350003.pdf

 

[BOXCARS]

If you remove the shims later on you will come back to the same problem as the pad will be worn to the angle with the shims and removing them will bring it back to the previous angle.

As I said, if I just allowed them to wear in, they will eventually be flush. Using the shims at this time will allow wearing more gradually. The problem of my initial uneven wearing will resolve itself.