Last winter, I rebuilt the entire rear suspension on my '67, new torque arms, bearings, SS brake shoes, the whole 9 yards.
Yesterday I drove the car to work, and while driving through the garage with the top down, I could hear a clicking, scraping noise coming from the rear tire. My first thought was one of the new bearings is roached. Got it home, still clicking, pulled off the tire, and the whole wheel well was covered with a metallic dust. The caliper and pads looked OK, so I just dropped the whole trailing arm with the spindle still in and noticed when flipping it upside down that a sliver of the new brake pad had sheared off (about 2 inches long and 1/4 inch wide, up to the first rivet. Also the chunk sheared off was still inside the rotor.
From what I can see and test, there is nothing wrong with the bearings and that the metallic dust was from the pad shearing off. I really hate to press the bearings off and disassemble the whole spindle just to check them.
Should I go ahead a disassemble it or just put it back in the car and see if the noise is gone? Why did the parking brake shoe shear off? Should I have the rotor turned? It's been a while. Any advice would be appreciated. Patrick
Yesterday I drove the car to work, and while driving through the garage with the top down, I could hear a clicking, scraping noise coming from the rear tire. My first thought was one of the new bearings is roached. Got it home, still clicking, pulled off the tire, and the whole wheel well was covered with a metallic dust. The caliper and pads looked OK, so I just dropped the whole trailing arm with the spindle still in and noticed when flipping it upside down that a sliver of the new brake pad had sheared off (about 2 inches long and 1/4 inch wide, up to the first rivet. Also the chunk sheared off was still inside the rotor.
From what I can see and test, there is nothing wrong with the bearings and that the metallic dust was from the pad shearing off. I really hate to press the bearings off and disassemble the whole spindle just to check them.
Should I go ahead a disassemble it or just put it back in the car and see if the noise is gone? Why did the parking brake shoe shear off? Should I have the rotor turned? It's been a while. Any advice would be appreciated. Patrick
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