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Brakes

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5150MyU said:
Were not talking about life or death here-just doing a proper brake job.
If you don't know how to do one don't bother trying until you watch some videos or have someone show you.
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Chuckle!!!

Young boy, I was doing proper brake jobs before the best part of you was left on the sheets.
 
i just finished installing new calipers/pads/rotors on my MR2 and thought this was VERY easy. didnt have to grind at all. Pads fit snuggly, but not to the point of not fitting over the rotor.
Just watch some youtube, job is easy.
This from the noob.
 
LOL at this thread....

Your pads should drag **slightly**. Slightly as in once you drive an 1/8 mile, it looks like it is dragging, but it's not. Yes, it stays that close.

Also, I have never heard of needing brakes to be modified prior to installing. Not even the cheap Chinese stuff. If this is the case, then you need to get the correct part.
 
Gibson486 said:
LOL at this thread....

Your pads should drag **slightly**. Slightly as in once you drive an 1/8 mile, it looks like it is dragging, but it's not. Yes, it stays that close.
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Huh?
Also, I have never heard of needing brakes to be modified prior to installing. Not even the cheap Chinese stuff. If this is the case, then you need to get the correct part.
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I will reiterate; the pads I had could have been installed as they came out of the package. I straightened out the edge taper from the poorly-done shearing operation because I didn't like that they needed so much force to install into the new, included abutment clips.

See:

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It was not possible for me to do significant restructuring of the steel pad backing because all I was doing was scraping the steel against a spare interlocking driveway tile I had laying around.

Get over it, folks, until I die in a car accident.
 
spare interlocking driveway tile...definitely something for everyone's toolchest.

ghetto-ass car parts FTMFL.
 
alkemyst said:
spare interlocking driveway tile...definitely something for everyone's toolchest.

ghetto-ass car parts FTMFL.
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I didn't realize you had a vested interest in the tools I possess. Me, I'm just too lazy to go looking for my files which I rarely use.
 
Howard said:
I didn't realize you had a vested interest in the tools I possess. Me, I'm just too lazy to go looking for my files which I rarely use.
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what do you have Jay Leno's garage? you probably don't own files.

Just keep that paver handy: hammer, grinder, sander, ....

Please try to stay from behind me in traffic.
 
alkemyst said:
don't worry, we really don't care cause you have:

The Swiss Army Rock:
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So basically you were talking out of your ass as usual. I should've known better than to legitimize your online existence once again.

EDIT: It's a very useful tool. Don't knock it.
 
So yeah, I only did my front brakes last time since my rear brakes still had a lot of pad left. I decided today that I didn't want to deal with the dusting from the rear semi-mets, so I swapped the pads. Glad I decided to do it, since I discovered one of the slide pins had seized.

Fortunately it didn't take too much cursing to remove it - I broke it free by twisting it with a wrench (18mm for the pins on a first-gen CTS), and then "unscrewed" it with a pair of vice grips since it wouldn't pull straight out.
 
ShawnD1 said:
Your car does that because it's designed by the same Chinese engineer responsible for those crappy Ford Mustang transmissions. Real engineers from real countries like Japan and USA put springs in the brakes to pull the brake pads back and stop them from rubbing.

The travel distance of the brake pads is why the brakes in all Toyota vehicles feel so mushy. It's actually one if the first things people complain about when they drive a Toyota for the first time. "the pads aren't wearing down fast enough, waaaah I want my chinese designed Geo Metro back"
http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/1gen-tundra/84504-soft-brakes-and-creeping/
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What? I have a Corolla too and the brakes are definitely not mushy...
 
The only springs I have in my brake system are the parking brake drums. Where the fuck are springs in a quality disc system that retract the pads.
 
alkemyst said:
The only springs I have in my brake system are the parking brake drums. Where the fuck are springs in a quality disc system that retract the pads.
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Why would there be a spring on the pad? That would suck too much power out of the brakes. On non motor bikes, they have a modulator spring on the brake line and even then, most places take them off when building the bikes.
 
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