So for awhile now my front driver side pads have been knocking (sliding left and right slamming against the calipers) After some research I found that this is common because of the smaller after market pads or just pads without shims. Below are a couple links to a few pads that I think "might" work to solve this issue.

However today I thought I would just make my own and save the money (Free). This is not a daily driver but I will cruise about in it this year to test this fix. The reason I attempted this rather than just ordering some pads is because getting the right fit of pads and calipers could be a long enough task. The pads linked below have rubber backings so thats what I did

Possible Brake Pads to fix?
https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/...tm_medium=ymme
https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/...463%7CL3*15694

I just stuck some rubber to the back of my pads using an old rubber roof patch kit. (yes I cleaned the back of the pads first :P )







So far it works!

What are your thoughts on this?

 

Just saw this through another link. Never thought about that. Great detective work there.

 

thanks so far they are still not knocking and braking just fine