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damm brakes are really pi#^@ng me off.

they squeal under braking, i have changed the pads so far, bendix advance, bendix ultimate, had the rotors machined, now i have just put the 4000series on. does anyone know if there is supposed to be tin between the pad and the pistons??????? i have put anti squeal on, still no good.

any other suggestions guys? :D

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well rang nissan, to get the shims........ you have to buy the caliper kit.......$170. my ass im spending that to get the shims. rang every business i could find in the yellow pages and yeah they have them, but cant seperate them from the calipers. the only way to get them is if someone has completely stuffed calipers. i cant see that being the only way. does anyone else know someone that might have these shims??????

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Hi mate

I have recently overhauled my calipers and there isn't much to go wrong in them - what I mean is the chances of having stuffed calipers are pretty slim.

Have you tried calling a brake specialist? They *may* be able to manufacture something or modify an exisiting shim cheaper than buying a replacement set of calipers?

Perhaps call JustJap or JMS or any other wrecker?

If you ZILLA01 is an R32, then the R33 GTS25t shims should fit.

Hope it helps :P

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thanks cowie.

i tried calling justjap and jms, they wont strip their calipers for these parts. my car is the r33. i have manufactured 4 shims today using brass shim paper. it stops the squealing under light and hard brake applications but still squeals when the wheel is turned under light braking, but will not squeal under straight light braking so go figure.

so a hint to other people if your brakes are squealing, try and get some brass shim paper from repco and cut out with a pair of sissors the shape of the pad with the two pin holes and try that. it has sort of worked for me. make sure that you still put anti squeal on the pad, then the shim paper.

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I had really bad squeeling problems. Took the pads out and cleaned the contact faces ( and the pads in general ), cleaned the entire caliper including the slide area and cleaned all the shims etc. I then got the discs machined, made sure everything was tight etc and put it all back together again. I went for a long hard drive through the nasho and tried to get them heated & bedded but no joy, they squeeled as bad as ever.

Anyway, during the last Putty Rd cruise I got the opportunity to put some "REAL" heat into the pads and rotors. I'm talking about at least 1/2 hour of hard driving using the brakes a lot. Since then, they make a little bit of a squeel for the first 5 minutes of driving and then they're dead quite !! So...... my suggestion is to find a nice long drive ( or track day ) and get the pads and rotors really hot ( bed them in like you're teaching them a lesson :P )

ALso, I'm running Winmax Pads and Zeal Straight 6 rotors. Before them I had EBC pads and rotors which I bedded in around Eastern Creek and they never made a noise after that day.

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