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| ieezitin:
Hey guys. don’t knock yourself too much. I have owned a 1997 ford F150 1/2Ton pick up 4 wheel drive for its entire life. Discs on the front and shoes on the back. Never / never have I replaced the back brakes. Just not worth it. The discs on the front do all the stopping. All round discs are the way to go for stopping power but these cheesy car manufactures never applied all round discs. only now are companies supplying all round disc brakes. Drum brakes don’t work. Never have never will. All the best. Anthony. |
| 75Plus:
--- Quote from: Darren on February 22, 2010, 08:15:24 PM --- I had a very hot Astra that I did many mods to inc totally tuning the engine with no expense spared. That had disk and drums on the back .... weird .. :D --- End quote --- Disk and drum on the rear is a common practice. The drum is for parking or emergency and the disk is for normal service. Disk brakes don't lend themselves to mechanical operation as drum brakes do. On my two vehicles the drum is only about 8 inches in diameter to allow clearance for the calipers. Joe |
| tinkerer:
They can be a bugger sometimes. I figure you checked the min. thickness allowed and you were good with that. Rear brakes don't stop you, they just keep the backend behind the frontend. A milling machine really opens up the projects you can undertake. One day. |
| jatt:
Yes I am very happy my current drive (Falcon ute) has discs all round. Frotunately I wont have service my trailer brakes too often. Spent many fustrating hours playing with rear drums on my previous four cars. Two of which were Mazdas. Mazda had this damned habit of putting stake nuts (soft metal nuts that u had to belt the end collar over with a chisel). Take em off once and u stuff the collar up. Give me split pins any day. |
| John Hill:
--- Quote from: jatt on February 23, 2010, 02:27:18 AM ---Yes I am very happy my current drive (Falcon ute) has discs all round. --- End quote --- How is the hand brake? My XH has had a useless hand brake from new, and now it has developed a pesky, scraping, scratching, noise in the rear brake. Oh well, ten years is not new anymore! :coffee: |
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