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JakeLee:
I have very noisy front brakes on my 78 750K.  I tried the trick of taking the pads off and rubbing them on a concrete floor 3 times to remove the glazing, but the squealing/glazing just comes back in a week or so.  The pads are in good shape, the rotor looks fine.  Do I need better brakes? Any suggestions?

eldar:
well you can put on a brake compound, it is a paste, and that can help. I dont know about doing that though since we only have one brake on the front. Are there little grooves that go around the rotor? If there are that can do it, only a rotor cut would help that. If your pads are old that may cause it as well.

JakeLee:
Hmm...rotor looks good.  When you say old, do you mean physical age?  Wear wise they are great, but I am uncertain as to their age.  The bike was a gift from the father-in-law!

fergie:
There are a couple of things I've done to my 550 to keep the noise down.1ST remove the pucks and put some "disk brake quiet"or similar product on the contact area of the back of your puck,(where the piston touches the backing plate of your pad).2ND you can file the leading edge of your pucks about a 1/8 of an inch on a 45degree angle,also clean your disk with  disk brake cleaner .Both products I mentioned can be purchased at any auto parts store.good luck, Fergie.

cben750f0:
check that the pad on the piston side has the nylon ring behind it... this was an attempt to get rid of the squeel.... if not get a set of pads with this ring... i drilled my discs, and that stopped the squeel, removes the dust from the rotor.

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