Squealing front brakes.
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Squealing front brakes.
I've got a set of chrome rotors, like new pads and I'm getting a squeal, but only just as you stop. Say the last ten feet.
I don't know when it started, I've only owned the bike for the last 100 miles.
Any ideas ?
I don't know when it started, I've only owned the bike for the last 100 miles.
Any ideas ?
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Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Sunny Saint Petersburg Florida
Glazing could be the problem, but I would start off with pads that are for chrome rotors only and flop the rotors around. Right on the left and so on. Thats what I had to do to get rid of the noise. The rotors build up a harmonic resonance towards the end of braking. Harley put it in a service bul. long time ago to flop rotors. Do a search on the forum it's there. My sig. pic. is before I flopped rotors.
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From: Ontario, Canada
Glazing could be the problem, but I would start off with pads that are for chrome rotors only and flop the rotors around. Right on the left and so on. Thats what I had to do to get rid of the noise. The rotors build up a harmonic resonance towards the end of braking. Harley put it in a service bul. long time ago to flop rotors. Do a search on the forum it's there. My sig. pic. is before I flopped rotors.
Spent the afternoon pulling the front wheel and reversing the rotors. I had two new in the box sets of chrome front rotor torx head bolts.
So when I was finished I had a nicely polished chrome front wheel, with nicely polished chrome rotors, with freshly installed chrome hardware, AND, the sqeeling was gone, gone , gone!
Thanks Moonrider.
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