hustler's "driver shame" thread
03-25-2010, 09:10 AM
#663
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in order to appropriately chronical my list of regrets in their entirety, here is my recent brake failure diatribe:
3-hours on DTC-30:
It all started with pad taper on Carbotechs where they lasted about 1-hour on the track.
then it was sticking slider pins
then a pad broke off the backing plate
then it was pad "knockback" but didn't know it
then I switched to the wilwoods
then it was a bad master cylinder
realized I had a bad bearing on the passenger side causing "knockback"
then it was chronic leaking wilwood calipers...only 8-failure points on each caliper!!!!!!
realized the DTC-30's are too "cold"
switched to PFC-97 and on the same day had what I only guess is a sticky piston and smoked the pad, rotor, and got the caliper hot enough for a rebuild
then I took the wilwoods off and drank a lot of beer, and I mean a lot
then I realized my knockback problem was probably a bad bearing on the driver's side too
I'm going to buy the cheap Racing Brake rotors and run the wilwood calipers. I think this will work and keep my wallet alive.
3-hours on DTC-30:
then it was sticking slider pins
then a pad broke off the backing plate
then it was pad "knockback" but didn't know it
then I switched to the wilwoods
then it was a bad master cylinder
realized I had a bad bearing on the passenger side causing "knockback"
then it was chronic leaking wilwood calipers...only 8-failure points on each caliper!!!!!!
realized the DTC-30's are too "cold"
switched to PFC-97 and on the same day had what I only guess is a sticky piston and smoked the pad, rotor, and got the caliper hot enough for a rebuild
then I took the wilwoods off and drank a lot of beer, and I mean a lot
then I realized my knockback problem was probably a bad bearing on the driver's side too
I'm going to buy the cheap Racing Brake rotors and run the wilwood calipers. I think this will work and keep my wallet alive.
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03-25-2010, 10:08 AM
#668
I had the same problem with the brass fittings holding the bleeder screws leaking on the wilwoods. All fittings on the passenger side would spin by hand halfway through one track day and fluid was coating everything.
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