Thought of this after the fact, when I replace the pads and rotors I used anti-seize on the ears of the pads and the metal slide pad ear guide hardware….
A few days goes by and I remove the rear brake caliper assembly to replace the caliper bracket, and it appears the anti-seize got “hard” and I can actually see this causing resistance on the metal pad ear sliders and causing a sticky pad or something
Did I mess up here by using anti-seize on the slider guides- the metal hardware kit that keeps the pads centered and able to move is what I’m referring to.
To note even the slider pins felt “stuff”
I’m tempted to redo the whole job and use the other kind of a/s I have… use anti-seize on the slider pins at the minimum. Break clean everything out and read do it ….
I might skip use an anti-seize on the metal hardware kit for the pad ears to slide on. (Is this wrong?)
Should I be redoing this, removing the anti-seize off the pad ears and just anti-seize in the pins/sliders?
Thank you all.
This is the hardware kit guides I am talking about
This is the a/s I used:
I’m thinking I even use the wrong anti-seize tbh. I have this also on hand:
A few days goes by and I remove the rear brake caliper assembly to replace the caliper bracket, and it appears the anti-seize got “hard” and I can actually see this causing resistance on the metal pad ear sliders and causing a sticky pad or something
Did I mess up here by using anti-seize on the slider guides- the metal hardware kit that keeps the pads centered and able to move is what I’m referring to.
To note even the slider pins felt “stuff”
I’m tempted to redo the whole job and use the other kind of a/s I have… use anti-seize on the slider pins at the minimum. Break clean everything out and read do it ….
I might skip use an anti-seize on the metal hardware kit for the pad ears to slide on. (Is this wrong?)
Should I be redoing this, removing the anti-seize off the pad ears and just anti-seize in the pins/sliders?
Thank you all.
This is the hardware kit guides I am talking about
This is the a/s I used:
I’m thinking I even use the wrong anti-seize tbh. I have this also on hand: