Smoking Brake Pads!!!

[ralphyralph5]

Ok, so i changed all 4 corners today(brake pads and Rotors)... I take the car out to bed the pads and check the brakes; I do a 40mph to 5mph and i notice a burning smell and smoke coming from the driver's side pads. I figure that it might be grease or oil burning off. So, I do a 50mph to 5mph run and there's even more smoke. I went back home going 15-20mph and do a check of the pads and everything looks fine. Is there something i'm missing? What else should I check?

Is this normal??

Thanks

 

[TheMAN]

you got a seized caliper!

 

[el_Don]

Any fix for that The Man? Other than a new one of course...

 

[poison]

Was it just the one corner? Are you sure? Because when you bed them in, they should all be smelling nasty.

 

[aMaff]

truth, bedding them in will cause smoke. That question is valid: all of them, or just 1 pad / corner? Also, if it was, for example, both rears: when you adjusted the screw for the rear calipers, did you torque it all the way down, or back it off 1/4 - 1/3 turn? Because it'll take them some time to auto-adjust, and if they're too tight they'll drag for a while.

As for un-******* a ****** caliper... it depends on how ****** it is LOL. If you can get the slider pin out and take the caliper off of the fixed pin on the bracket, it shouldn't be any more complex than giving them a good cleaning with brake parts cleaner and a couple of Q-Tips, and re-greasing the caliper well. Don't over-grease, but you definitely want to be able to smoothly move the caliper on the pins by hand.

Which brings up another valid question: you *did* grease all the slider pins when you did the swap, right?

 

[SeR_Cyclops]

Keep driving it for a few more miles and see if the problem goes away.

 

[ralphyralph5]

Thanks to all for the quick replies!

It is just the driver front that smoked but i don't think its seized bc i got the caliper to move so that i could install the new rotor and pads. i'll drive it tomorrow for a little while to see if it goes away.

Yes, all 8 were re-greased ;-)

 

[poison]

Well, find an empty road, and bed them per the instructions in the brake pad box, OR this:

http://new.minimania.com/web/Displa...isplayType/Technical Information/ArticleV.cfm

 

[ralphyralph5]

Good to go!!! Thanks for all the help and insight