When I did rear pads/rotors/calipers on my '84 190D recently I used parts from Car Quest. One thing I noticed about the pads was that the edges weren't beveled but were squared off. I seem to remember the fronts I put on were beveled but I haven't checked. These squared off ones squealed a bit for the first hundred or so miles.
I'll ask the obvious question, you did put caliper grease on the pads right? I've heard various opinions about how much to use, I slather the stuff on. First time I did pads I bought a big bottle of caliper grease. The parts guy tried to talk me into a little tube of the stuff but I went for the big jobbie, haven't regretted it in the 3 brake jobs I've done. -Curt Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:33:09 -0400 From: dsereta...@yahoo.com To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: [MBZ] Brake fiasco Message-ID: <0ca0081e-761f-45b2-9e8d-8b83e0447...@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I finally finished the complete front brake job on the 240D today, but...it's still not braking quite right. On the highway, with hard braking, I get a pulsation. There is also quite a bit of squealing. Here's what I did good and bad: Good: I used genuine MB flexible hoses, grease seals, bearing grease, left front bearing set, left front steel brake line. I used scale to measure grease and dial indicator to set bearings. Bad: I used remanufactured calipers, duralast pads and duralast rotors. I did this in the interest of time. I should have been more patient and ordered the good stuff from Gary! I also did not torque the lug nuts but I did use the wimpy factory lug wrench which can't realistically apply too much torque. I also didn't step on it to tighten! I've never had an issue with this approach so I doubt that I warped the rotors but you never know. What could be going on? Literally everything was replaced! Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
