95 Accord EXL 4cyl 4dr 187K

Recently, I put on a new master cylinder. And just last night, I replaced the front brake pads.

Everything seemed find. Then once I got going and the car got warmed up, the front end of the car, my brake pedal and my steering wheel vibrate violently when I apply the brakes.

I did not bleed the front calipers after putting in the pads; but my buddy seems to think it's warped rotors that I wouldn't necessarily see. And if they are warped, I would not necessarily would have noticed it with the old pads because they had conformed, etc.

When I took off the old pads, I did notice that all the pads were cracked.

The front rotors were turned not that long ago as well.

Anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be?

 

Vibration on braking is the classic signs of warped rotors, and no, you can't tell by looking. Bleeding has nothing to do with this, I'd get new rotors and go from there. The problem is that your car has the stupidest rotor/hub design out there that causes way more work than should be neccessary to change the rotors. Search for some DIY's on this, there are a couple here on the board.

 

i had the same problem change my rotors and it was fixed , sometimes the bolts melt to the rotor