Ray, I've started doing some research on breaking in brakes and such. I haven't done it yet, so the brakes aren't seated apparently. Tomorrow I'll go out to the state forest and see if I can get them to seat on the rotors. If not, I'll have the rotors turned so that everything's flat and the pads won't have such a hard time seating. I've also started reading my Haynes Manual and the Legacys (not sure about other Scoobs) have a braking compensator that will start braking with the rear brakes if the event that the front brakes don't stop you under hard braking. I think that's probably why they locked up. Hopefully I can get the pads seated correctly and get my stopping distance back. Until then, I'll be allowing myself plenty of extra time to get places and make sure I have plenty of distance to stop in case of an emergency. I'll check back tomorrow after I try to seat the pads.
Edit: The old pads were about half the thickness of the new pads. I am using Bendix brakes, which I was told is the OEM parts by the people down at Advanced Auto. The gap between the rotor and the pad is exteremly close. If it's not that the pads are not seated, it may be that the caliper piston is seized or something.
