Gurus, please help!
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Gurus, please help!
It started during a track day just 2 days ago.... but it got progressively worse and worse
its a strange clicking noise, its very low volume and i can barely hear it with the stereo off in a straight line.... i said in a straight line, because it seems to turn louder when i turn right (loading the left side), as well, just yesterday i washed the car, but today i found a sickening amount of brake dust has made its way onto my left wheel.... i really have no idea if it is coming from the brakes (fyi, im on track Wilwood A pads, but the right wheel isn't showing that at all), and before people start saying why i am running track pads on the street, it is simple because i want to burn off the bedded in A pad material on the disc
now, several piece of information to include
1) on the same track day, when i was swapping back to street wheels, one stud came loose.... and half the threading on the inside that connects to the hub is stripped.... becuase i had no bolts to put back in, i slapped the stud back in and torqued the wheel in the normal fashion.... but that's it, the torqing did not come loose....
2) i recently curbed one wheel, bending a control arm a very teeny bit, so tiny it is unnoticeable unless its on the alignment machine... i replaced the bent wheel, and did an alignment.... car tracks perfectly straight/....
so i wonder why is it making so much more dust on the left.... maybe it has somethin to do with the brakes rubbing against something.. but what...
anyone want to try to help me piece together what's wrong?
its a strange clicking noise, its very low volume and i can barely hear it with the stereo off in a straight line.... i said in a straight line, because it seems to turn louder when i turn right (loading the left side), as well, just yesterday i washed the car, but today i found a sickening amount of brake dust has made its way onto my left wheel.... i really have no idea if it is coming from the brakes (fyi, im on track Wilwood A pads, but the right wheel isn't showing that at all), and before people start saying why i am running track pads on the street, it is simple because i want to burn off the bedded in A pad material on the disc
now, several piece of information to include
1) on the same track day, when i was swapping back to street wheels, one stud came loose.... and half the threading on the inside that connects to the hub is stripped.... becuase i had no bolts to put back in, i slapped the stud back in and torqued the wheel in the normal fashion.... but that's it, the torqing did not come loose....
2) i recently curbed one wheel, bending a control arm a very teeny bit, so tiny it is unnoticeable unless its on the alignment machine... i replaced the bent wheel, and did an alignment.... car tracks perfectly straight/....
so i wonder why is it making so much more dust on the left.... maybe it has somethin to do with the brakes rubbing against something.. but what...
anyone want to try to help me piece together what's wrong?
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Originally Posted by kyriian
It started during a track day just 2 days ago.... but it got progressively worse and worse
its a strange clicking noise, its very low volume and i can barely hear it with the stereo off in a straight line.... i said in a straight line, because it seems to turn louder when i turn right (loading the left side), as well, just yesterday i washed the car, but today i found a sickening amount of brake dust has made its way onto my left wheel.... i really have no idea if it is coming from the brakes (fyi, im on track Wilwood A pads, but the right wheel isn't showing that at all), and before people start saying why i am running track pads on the street, it is simple because i want to burn off the bedded in A pad material on the disc
now, several piece of information to include
1) on the same track day, when i was swapping back to street wheels, one stud came loose.... and half the threading on the inside that connects to the hub is stripped.... becuase i had no bolts to put back in, i slapped the stud back in and torqued the wheel in the normal fashion.... but that's it, the torqing did not come loose....
2) i recently curbed one wheel, bending a control arm a very teeny bit, so tiny it is unnoticeable unless its on the alignment machine... i replaced the bent wheel, and did an alignment.... car tracks perfectly straight/....
so i wonder why is it making so much more dust on the left.... maybe it has somethin to do with the brakes rubbing against something.. but what...
anyone want to try to help me piece together what's wrong?
its a strange clicking noise, its very low volume and i can barely hear it with the stereo off in a straight line.... i said in a straight line, because it seems to turn louder when i turn right (loading the left side), as well, just yesterday i washed the car, but today i found a sickening amount of brake dust has made its way onto my left wheel.... i really have no idea if it is coming from the brakes (fyi, im on track Wilwood A pads, but the right wheel isn't showing that at all), and before people start saying why i am running track pads on the street, it is simple because i want to burn off the bedded in A pad material on the disc
now, several piece of information to include
1) on the same track day, when i was swapping back to street wheels, one stud came loose.... and half the threading on the inside that connects to the hub is stripped.... becuase i had no bolts to put back in, i slapped the stud back in and torqued the wheel in the normal fashion.... but that's it, the torqing did not come loose....
2) i recently curbed one wheel, bending a control arm a very teeny bit, so tiny it is unnoticeable unless its on the alignment machine... i replaced the bent wheel, and did an alignment.... car tracks perfectly straight/....
so i wonder why is it making so much more dust on the left.... maybe it has somethin to do with the brakes rubbing against something.. but what...
anyone want to try to help me piece together what's wrong?
Alex
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