Question regarding sound following brake service…..

I have a question with a long lead in so please bear with me….

So I went to get my tires rotated the other day because I couldn’t get the rear driver tire off. The shop I took it to had a hell of a town getting it off too. They eventually did and upon brake inspection showed me that my pads were snot and rotors were scored. I opted for pad and rotor replacement vs turning the rotors. My truck has 106,000 miles so I knew there was general maintenance coming up. Pulled out of the parking lot and there was a rhythmic scraping from both wheel wells. Turned back into the shop and they said the dust covers were rubbing so they pried them back.

on the way home it started again but the shop had closed for the weekend. I decided to check the torque settings on the lug nuts and the gorilla mechanic put them on at around 140 foot pounds. They also stripped out my security lug key……

I went to car quest and bought 4 new lug nuts and emergency extractor. Finally was able to break free the security lugs and replace with regular ones. Loosened and retorqued all lugs to spec. Noise was MUCH less by occasionally could hear it (I don’t feel anything at all).

I climbed under today and there isn’t anything obvious. I used a long screwdriver to pry the dust shield back a little more. Hopefully that works.

I will try to upload a video of the sound. But does anyone know what I should look out for. The pads are not sticking and I can’t really see anything rubbing. I hope it’s the dust shield. BUT it is very consistent and rhythmic and ONLY when turning. I was thinking maybe wheel bearing or maybe they knocked something out of whack when using the sledge hammer to knock the wheel free??????

 

When I got my tires rotated and spin balanced, they put the wheel weights in the wrong place, and they were rubbing Making a similar sound as you’re describing

 

I did my rear pads and rotors recently. I had a scraping after as well. I thought it was the dust covers so I bent them back, had no effect, thought maybe it was the parking break so I set it all the way in. No effect. So now at this point I was like wtf, so I jacked the truck up and let the them spin with no wheels on, the scraping was coming from inside the parking break drum. I pulled the rotors off and sure enough it was gone. It turned out it's the dust covers for the parking brake scraping the inside of the drum of the new rotor, it probably has had some corrosion build up on it over the years making it slightly out of spec. After driving awhile it has pretty much all gone away and worn itself down, now just once in awhile I might hear it a little bit while turning in a parking lot. My guess would be this might be exactly what's happening to you. If you want to have the wheels spinning with the truck jacked up, you need to turn traction control fully off by holding down the button or else the traction control will start applying the brakes.

 

Thanks I will check both of those out!