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hey guys need help, my dad has a 07 Chevy 2500 Hd and anytime he applies the brakes the whole truck shakes, i just recently purchased new brake and rotors for his truck and put them on and it still does the same thing. any help will be greatly appreciated i dont know much about these trucks

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it is a fast vibration wether u hit the brakes hard of soft its the same and i did bleed the lines and the fliud is good

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I'm heading to bed... so i'll throw this out there in case you do have aftermarket wheels.

 

99.99% of the time people put aftermarket wheels on a vehicle they forget to take the retaining washers off of the wheel studs. These washers are put on to keep rotors and drums in place on the assembly line and otherwise serve no functional purpose. OEM wheels have a chamfer on the back side to allow them to sit flush with the hub. Most aftermarket wheels do not have this chamfer... so they don't sit flush with the hub; and this results in a vibration when the brakes are applied.

 

So if you have aftermarket wheels on there... make sure these retaining washers are removed from front AND rear rotors/drums. Here's an image that shows a hub with retaining washers on two of the studs:

 

BaerRear_07.jpg

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the wheels are the oem wheels and i got the pads and rotors from the same place and the match to the one that were one the truck,

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Did you do the front only or the rear as well?

 

Did you torque them properly when you put the wheels back on or did you just crank down on them with an impact gun? (over torquing will warp rotors)

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I had trouble with my 02. I put 2 or 3 sets of rotors on it and after 3 - 6 months they would warp again. I do not beat my truck. I had a conversation with a Rep. from Raybestos and he told me that the Ceramic pads were the cause of the problem. It seems that the pads are so hard that they permeate the rotors and cause hard spots in them. He suggested that I use metallic pads. I put a new set of rotors on and used the metallic pads and I haven't had a problem ever since.

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Did you do the front only or the rear as well?

 

Did you torque them properly when you put the wheels back on or did you just crank down on them with an impact gun? (over torquing will warp rotors)

 

Matt,What vehicles does this pertain to? I have never worried about this on any vehicle i've owned. I have a 2000 1500 that i have put on wheels with a electric impact without even thinking about using a torque wrench after. I recently replaced a rotor soon after i bought the truck. And i thing i did was tighten the piss out of the wheels because of a shake/vibration in the vehicle. But i always do the cross pattern when tightening. Regardless it is pretty mickey mouse,cause how many people have a torque wrench with them when they have a flat.

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