First found I didn't need to do them anyway, there was heaps of pad left, but since I went to the expense of buying some very good quality 4wd specific pads, thought I might as well put them on anyway.
Paid very careful attention to exactly how they came off, and how the shims were arranged, and put them back together exactly the same way, but whatever I've done wrong they now "sing" as I drive along.
I even carefully followed the "bedding in" instructions that came with the pads. But "sing" they do. It's a very high pitched sound (a bit like it would make if a shim was rubbing on the rotor or something, but that doesn't appear to be the case).
The only thing that's different that I can see is the old pads have some sort of papery gasketty type sheet stuck or glued to them which is impossible to remove to put on the new pads. Nothing like that came with the pads I bought, so am I meant to try and locate some of these paper doohickeys, or is that not likely to be the cause?
On the plus side, she sure stops better now
(And yes, I am joking, I'm hardly going to keep driving it with something rubbing, the heat generated would be dangerous.)
