OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
So my wife has been bugging me about the strange noise her brakes on the '06 Charger have been making lately. No performance issues, just a chattering sound, which I have heard, and it was quite loud, particularly in reverse. She "booked me" for this afternoon after work to take a look at it.
Pulled both sides apart, found some pretty decent rust creep (to the point of marks on the pads) on the back sides of the rotors and absolutely bone-dry sticking pad sliders. Inner pad on the drivers side wouldn't even move. Somebody had also, I assume in an attempt to get rid of the brake squeal problem the car had when we first bought it, siliconed the living *bleep* out of the pads and callipers, which was fun to remove. The silicone was so heavy on the passenger side that it was most definitely affecting the ability for the boot to operate properly on one or both of the pistons.
I hauled out the wire wheel and the drill, along with a file and the Permatex synthetic brake lube and cleaned everything off, used a hammer to bash off the rust scale on the backs of the rotors (probably not going to help much but it was worth a shot) and then filed the pad slide points, got rid of any sharp edges, cleaned off the silicone, used the synthetic lube on any contact points and reassembled.
Brakes are now dead silent.
The car has some pretty meaty aluminum twin piston callipers up front BTW, they are actually pretty substantial, I was a bit surprised.
Pulled both sides apart, found some pretty decent rust creep (to the point of marks on the pads) on the back sides of the rotors and absolutely bone-dry sticking pad sliders. Inner pad on the drivers side wouldn't even move. Somebody had also, I assume in an attempt to get rid of the brake squeal problem the car had when we first bought it, siliconed the living *bleep* out of the pads and callipers, which was fun to remove. The silicone was so heavy on the passenger side that it was most definitely affecting the ability for the boot to operate properly on one or both of the pistons.
I hauled out the wire wheel and the drill, along with a file and the Permatex synthetic brake lube and cleaned everything off, used a hammer to bash off the rust scale on the backs of the rotors (probably not going to help much but it was worth a shot) and then filed the pad slide points, got rid of any sharp edges, cleaned off the silicone, used the synthetic lube on any contact points and reassembled.
Brakes are now dead silent.
The car has some pretty meaty aluminum twin piston callipers up front BTW, they are actually pretty substantial, I was a bit surprised.
