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New Pads Causing Caliper to Hit Rim

998 views 8 replies 7 participants last post by  S10xGN 
#1 ·
:( Having a heck of a time trying to find a rubbing noise in the front end, but I found it. Seems that the caliper is hitting deep inside of the rim, so much so that you can see more rubbing on one side than on the other. . Wheels are after market 15" wheels with a 4" offset. Don't have any problem with the other wheel, but this one. Will fatter pads cause the caliper to move out to cause the hitting? It is a floating caliper (one piston on the inside). Short of making a 1/8" spacer is there anything else that I can do?
 
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:sweat:I took a look at the other wheel and it too has a slight interference (see pics); more on the drivers side as compared to the passenger side. The interference is where the pin just about comes through the caliper, in both wheels. I suppose it is a fault of the wheels, although the stock ones do not hit.
 

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Grind it and then hit it with some high temp paint. I have had wheels that would not go on until I grinded the caliper down. On gm single piston rear calipers you can go almost 3/8. I have pictures at the house of a pilot kit(get for free with install/report) I needed to go a bit extreme on to fit the stock wheels on.

Make sure when you have your wheels balanced they put the weights on the outside.
 
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