I am doing my front brake pads and I read on the caliper lube package that you should also lube between the back of the brake pad where it touches the caliper piston. Is that correct?


thanks,
phil

 

Sounds right. Anywhere there's surfaces that move against each other should be lubricated. (Except for the faces of the pad and the rotor, of course. ) Putting lubricant on the back of the pad will help prevent squealing and rattling.

 

The best things you can do to prevent rattling and squeaking, is to make sure the clip on the inboard pad is in good shape; and to bend the little "ears" on the outboard pad in about 1/8" or so, to make them grab onto the caliper tightly.

The lube and silicone and other spooge is a bunch of monkey-spank IMO. I have no clue why those people bother with that crap. The rest of us have been doing as I describe since long before they started packaging that waste of shipping weight with their pads, and it's worked fine all these years. I never ever use it. I just do what actually works.