What's shaking?

dzx · Post by **dzx** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:51 am

I've noticed lately when i step on the brakes, the steering wheel jerks and starts shaking pretty bad but if i step on the brakes harder, it seems to quiet it down. Do i have a warped rotor or something? My old n/a legacy used to do this too.

Post by **Legacy777** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:05 am

Try rebedding your brakes again.

Imprezive · Post by **Imprezive** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:40 am

what exactly is "rebedding" the brakes?

Post by **Legacy777** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:47 am

It's different for each brake pad, but typically it involves several consecutive stops (10 or so) from about 60 to 10 mph with medium to firm brake pressure. Then driving for a little while to cool the brakes, then repeat 2-3 more times.

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:48 am

Bedding them again.

http://www.stoptech.com/tech_info/wp_bedintheory.shtml

professor · Post by **professor** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:31 pm

check the condition of your balljoints and tie rod ends also. if there is play there, the whole hub flops around under braking

rallysam · Post by **rallysam** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:35 pm

vrg3 wrote:Bedding them again.

http://www.stoptech.com/tech_info/wp_bedintheory.shtml

That sounds like the kind of procedure that wouldn't be appropriate in downtown Baltimore's concrete canyons

Maybe if I ran circuits through the industrial area in the middle of the night.

vrg3 · Post by **vrg3** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:42 pm

Yeah... I recently did my brakes in here in Cleveland and it was simply impossible to achieve the ideal bed-in. I did my best, though, and have since been going easy on them. Street pads are designed to eventually bed themselves in if you use them gently for a couple hundred miles anyway, so I don't anticipate a problem.

And if you're not using street pads, you ought to have access to a track to bed them in on.

(A funny thing happened as I was doing the bed-in... a dude in an NSX came up behind me and paced me as I went from 70 to 5 and back; then when I was coasting at 5mph for a bit he pulled up beside me and asked what kind of brakes I'd just put in.

)

rallysam · Post by **rallysam** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:45 pm

Ha! That's awesome!!!!

legacy92ej22t · Post by **legacy92ej22t** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:02 pm

Hehehe, cool.

Tleg93 · Post by **Tleg93** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:16 pm

That's cool. It's not every day someone asks about your brakes.

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What's shaking?

What's shaking?