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Old Nov 11, 2006 | 06:02 PM
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Brake Rub

Well, I had my car up on jackstands a couple weeks ago to install my LED kit, and both rear brake drums were rubbing during half the rotation of the wheels, like they were mis-calibrated. Is this normal, or should I be going to the dealer for warranty work?
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Old Nov 11, 2006 | 06:32 PM
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Rubbing how?

When you spin your tires when their raised in the air you'll always hear a little bit of a grinding or rubbing sound.
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Old Nov 11, 2006 | 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by rallyyellow06
Rubbing how?

When you spin your tires when their raised in the air you'll always hear a little bit of a grinding or rubbing sound.
It's not something I hear, the wheel spins fine, with no friction for half a rotation, then, it hits the affected part, and the wheel stops spinning, and it takes a bit of force to get it going, the actual brakes are rubbing internally
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Old Nov 11, 2006 | 07:02 PM
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Old Nov 11, 2006 | 10:46 PM
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Warranty time, just hope they dont want to be asses and say you modded something that affected it
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Old Jan 6, 2007 | 01:14 AM
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I still have this problem, on one wheel its getting pretty bad, but the other one seems to have gotten a little bit better. The manual says something about self-adjusting brake, and to "adjust" the rear brakes, it says to drive in reverse and hit the brakes pretty damn hard to reseat the brakes, should I try it?
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Old Jan 6, 2007 | 01:55 AM
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Originally Posted by HackAbuse
it says to drive in reverse and hit the brakes pretty damn hard to reseat the brakes, should I try it?
That's generally how you would get them to tighten more, I'd pull the drums and give the adjusting star shaped bolt thing a turn or 2 in whichever direction would make it shorter.
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