Jville808

First off, I want to say thank you to everybody on here. Everytime I have a question or problem with my 'stang, I know I can always count on an answer on this site.

My question/problem today is about my brakes.

I just had Cobra disc brakes installed all the way around on my 93 GT. I am by no means a brake expert. I never knew how to even change my own pads until yesterday, when I dissassembled everything to install some springs.

When I got my car back last week after the disc brake conversion install, I noticed on the ride home the car was a little sluggish, and when I would be coming to a stop the car would almost stop itself when I was rolling (to a stop...about 2mph). It's a manual transmission. For example, if I was on a slight incline in nuetral, it wouldn't roll.

When tearing everything apart and reassembling it yesterday, I noticed the brake pads are sitting right up against the rotor. It was tight getting those things back on around the rotor. I even somewhat dismantled one of the calipers (brake pads and the mounting bracket thing...sorry for not knowing what it's called) and it still went back together the same way. I havent mesed with or looked at the rear brakes yet.

I take it the "sluggishness" and inability to roll when on an incline is due to the pads being right on the rotors. Is this normal? They are brand new pads, and there's a lot of pad there. Will they "break in", as in wear down a little...enough to not be riding the rotor? Is that even safe? I imagine that will cause some serious friction and heat just driving without braking.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

90_notch

The new pads should wear in very quickly, and the car should return to normal, as long as all the correct parts were used in the conversion. With disc brakes the pads are always close to the rotors, as the calipers only release enough fluid to stop sqeezing the rotor, not enough to compress the pistons back into the calipers.

88 orangepeel notch

If you can't spin your wheel by hand when off the ground, I'd say something is wrong. There will be a slight drag on them, but nothing that should keep your car from rolling freely at a stop. New pads or not, something is wrong……frozen caliper, wrong disk, wrong pads.