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Originally Posted by srt42
Well, I gave your procedure a try today and this is the second seating attempt with virtually no help. I tried the other one mentioned before your post. The right front continues to squeak. It's loud, annoying, and cheesy. I may have to try the seating another time or 2 as you stated in your post (if I have any pads left).
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When you performed the bedding procedure, did you complete at least 6 aggressive slow-down events without ANY cooling off period in between? In other words, did you follow each event with an immediate, full throttle acceleration back up to 60 mph and then apply the brakes again?
I see many people botch the bedding procedure because they think they can do a couple slowdowns here, then cruise around for a little while, do another couple, and finally finish up when they find a third spot of low traffic density. It doesn't work that way. If you break up the bedding session into three distinct parts, it's as if you did nothing at all. The key is to get your rotors hot enough to get a transfer layer of pad material onto the rotors. This temperature isn't reached until about the 5th or 6th slowdown. Each time you accelerate back up to 60 mph, it's a race against time. Your rotors are cooling off as fast as they can and you're trying to get back up to speed before they do so. Each stop gets the rotors hotter than the stop before as long as you don't allow any time between stops to cool off.
If your right front pad is the one doing the squealing, then there's something different about that pad, caliper or rotor from the left side. The most likely difference is that there's only a partial transfer layer. It is possible that the tolerance of the pad backing plate is off slightly, allowing that pad to be a little looser than the left front and that lets it squeal more readily. But I'm inclined to think it's the bedding. Most everyone who rides along with me when I do it is surprised by how aggressive the technique is.
As I mentioned earlier, some pad compounds are more prone to squealing than others. If it turns out this is the case with the factory SRT8 pads, we should be able to offer alternative, lower noise pads once we figure out the proper sizing. This should happen as soon as
jketron gets his brakes measured at StopTech. See:
Anyone near Los Angeles with an SRT8 we can measure for a BBK (Bigger Brake Kit)?
