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Planned on using it for sliders and boots... 900

posted by  Dr Volvo on  Wed Jan 30 08:36 CST 2002
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I have used a *very light* amount of sil glide on my caliper pins. Made a huge difference.
I have been using CRC Disc Brake Quiet for 25 years. I was one of the very few that never had squeeky 140 brakes (2 244s, 1 245). Other 140 owners actually gawked at me when we stopped side by side and we both knew who was squeeling. Good stuff but a little hard to work with. You spray a light coating (the stuff is blue) once or twice (I always let it dry? it never seems to totally dry) - best done on a warm day or in a warm garage. As I recall you can't be anywhere near an open flame.
The technique I developed was to put the pads on a clean ~12" long 2X4, *face down* - i.e. braking surface to the wood and then sprayed them. No worry about overspray getting on the brake surface, sticking to news papers etc. One could even drive some finish nails into the 2x4 to locate the pads and keep them from moving. Using this method allows you to take the spray can and pads out into open air to spray/dry (or at least just get sprayed and brought back into the shop. Now I like the teflon coated shims even better - so much easier than Disc Brake Quiet but I don't know if those teflon shims are available for all calipers.
Sorry for the long winded explanation but it may help somebody out there.

Don

97 965 98k Duchess, 87 745 gle ?93k, 82 244 googlek, 82 245 ?250k one owner Dowager Empress






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