Ck. for any lat.runout that would recess the pistons and pads,as
in.warped,loose,not seated properly on hub ect....
Sid
"Linnhoff, Eric" wrote:
> Howdy all.
>
> Last weekend I was swapping my tires out and I did a casual brake system
> inspection. Y'know, "yup there's still meat on the pads and there are no
> nicks or leaks in the hoses". My front Carbotech pads are wearing fairly
> quickly and at this rate will only last about a year. That's cool with me
> for their performance.
>
> The thing that bothered me was that the factory rear pads were sitting
> visibly pretty far off of the rotors as the car sat with no load on the
> hydraulic braking system. Every other disc brake setup that I've ever
> looked at had the pads riding very closely to the rotors. Or there was a
> tiny enough gap that they looked like they were actually riding on the
> rotors.
>
> But my rear pads were/are riding about 1/16th" off of the rotors. Is this
> normal?? I thought that they were suposed to be "self-adjusting" and stay
> nearer to the rotors. Also, my parking brake has been very marginal in it's
> holding ability since day 1. There is no adjustability (that I know of) in
> the parking brake system and this slightly bothers me as well.
>
> Eric Linnhoff in KC
> 1998 Dodge Neon R/T
> #69 DS #13 TLS
> eric10mm@qni.com
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