Re: Followup to rear disc conversion

[skerocdriver@juno.com (SHAWN C MEZE)]

On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:17:26 -0700 Greg Baxter <gbaxter@istar.ca> writes:


>backing plates when I take the discs off to have them machined... After 
>taking it out for a few runs, the corrosion *sort of* wore off, but it's

>still quite evident. 

Well, that's proof that they are indeed working. (which is a good thing.)

Give it a little time, depending on how badly rusted they are, might take
a bit more usage to clean the rust off of them. If you do remove them to
be turned, be sure to use lots of brake cleaner on the pads themselves th
remove whatever rust is on them. They also will rust, depending on the
pad. 


 This seems to confirm my original 
>concern that the rear discs aren't really doing much.


I wouldn't drive the car too hard at this point. You want all the new
lines and parts to set into place before you really start to use them
hard. Besides, with the rusty rear rotors, its possible to eat up the
rotors with all the debris that's comming off of the rotors/pads. You run
a good risk of putting nice deep grooves on the rotors.

Like I said before about the rear prop valve. The rear disk brakes take a
little more fluid pressure to opperate the calipers compared to the litty
bitty wheel cylinders that were on there before. It could be that you
have a little more front bias than the rear than what you had before. 


Id love to chat more but I just got home from the Velocity Car Show and
im one beat puppy. I go night-night...



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