Squeaky Brakes after front-end work???

[HoustonGT]

Well, my car has the 13" Bullitt Brake Kit with the stock Motorcraft pads that came with it. I've had them on the GT for about 12k miles or so. The brakes never squealed or made any noise of any kind. Even took the calipers off a few times to do stuff and re-installed them with no issues.
Anyways, i took the car in to the Ford dealer to get my ball joints and outer tie-rods replaced. Made a hell of a difference form the worn out ones that were on ther. After that, i drove to the wheel shop, got my black saleens and got them put on along with new tires.
After getting all these things done on the car i noticed the next day that my brakes started squealing when coming to a stop or just braking moderately.
Whats weird is if they begin to make noise, i can either slightly back off or brake a tiny bit harder and it goes away. Also, they make noise at all the first 3-5 minutes of driving and then after a while it begins. What could be causing this and could the installer of my ball-joints and tie-rods simply have over-tightened my caliper bolts causing the squealing or done something else?
I know that ceramic pads sometimes have this affect and other pads do it when worn out but these only have 12k miles on them and by the way they still grab, i KNOW they are nowhere near worn out and i believe the stock Motorcraft pads are not ceramic.
Any Suggestioons? Possibly just unbolt the caliper and re-install or what? Thanks in advance guys and gals

Mike

 

[Dragstr05]

Any of that work that was done should have no effect on the brakes, they just arent related. If for whatever reason they had to take the brakes apart, most techs just unbolt the caliper mount, and pull the whole assembly off, and never touch the caliper or pads.

I'm guessing its probably just coincidence. You can have brake noise on brakes nowhere near worn out. You could try taking them apart, and lubricating the slide pins, and the edges of the pads where they seat in the caliper bracket.

 

[bdcardinal]

maybe they had dirty fingers? whenever i did front end work on some cars i would take the brakes off to get them out of the way, but i always touched them with clean gloves.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Just relubricate them. The act of removing the brakes probably shifted something into a position where vibrations caused audible noises.

 

[03ghoststang]

usually when i get some squeak form the brakes i just resurface the pads with sandpaper and it goes away

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Sand the glaze off the rotors with some emery cloth and the problem will be fixed.

 

[HoustonGT]

Sand the glaze off the rotors with some emery cloth and the problem will be fixed.

Can i just pick that up at autozone Killy?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Sure, emery cloth is just sand paper really. But emery cloth is more for for sanding metal instead of wood. A hardware store would have it for sure. And also spray down the rotors with brake cleaner real well just prior to install so they are as clean as possible like was said above.

 

[HoustonGT]

Alright. thanks for the info, i'll have to do this tomorrow when im off work. If it doesn't work, ill removed the calipers and grease the slide pins to see if that will solve the problem.

 

[BigHairyMonkey]

did you do it yet? cause if it works for you ima come over and we gonna do it on mine cause you know mine does the EXACT same ****