singing offkey!

[1990civicdx]

hi, i have a 1990 civic dx. i just got all the brakes changed a couple of weeks ago and the past few days my car has been giving off a high pitch noise (what i lovingly call "singing" lol). a guy in the car business took it for a test drive and told me the front calipers need to be loosened and that the brakes are dragging, but he never said if it's something i can do, or if it has to be a mechanic. can anyone help me out? know of any links that would explain the precedure to me? i love my car, but it's really sings offkey!

[90EX]

Who did the brake job? If you had a shop do it, bring it back.

[1990civicdx]

a guy my dad works with did it. get stuff done free of charge and he does mechanics for almost everyone he knows. so, i can't really take it back to a garage! he's busy for while, wanted to do it myself...

[dirtydx]

so it constantly gives off noise while your driving? i had that once, the clip on the brakepad was too big and dragged across the rotor. this probly isnt your problem, but oh well.

[1990civicdx]

yeah, constant noise until the car stops moving

[4-Door Flunky]

New front brake pads have loop of metal, a little tab, sticking out which is supposed to make noise when the brake pad gets very worn.
When I changed my pad, this little loop was scraping against my wheel, scrape, scrape, scrape, although it sounded like a click-click-click when I got going faster.
I got my pliers out and cut off the little tab. You should be able to take off your wheel and see a fresh scrape mark (on the inside surface of the wheel) if this is what's happening to you.
Flunky