Saw this at the junkyard...

[mitchlikesbikes]

a girl i was smashing for a minute asked me to look at her brakes on her 94 ford taurus cause they were making noise, it was a similar situation. the front inner pad on the driver side was GONE and the piston was pressing against the rotor under braking. totally fucked the piston and rotor but i fixed it with a new caliper and rotors/pads.




oh and it was also leaking brake fluid because the piston was overextended so far. she's like "yeah i just have to top that off sometimes". like yo, that's not a fluid your car should be consuming. haha

[15Michaeljoseph]

I have a feeling it had "a slight pull under braking."

seriously though what the fuck is that really



--Mike

[heatmakerz]

Interesting...and totally fucked.

[varg]

Seeing a car in the junkyard like that is not too surprising considering I have seen/heard people driving with brakes that badly damaged. Not a pleasant sound when they brake.

[Navarone]

Saw this at the junkyard...

"Adding lightness" it's a feature you pay extra for.

[QUKBMER]

In the 27 years i have been in the automotive repair industry i have only seen this a few times.

[steve68]

downshifting helps, then you don't have to use the brakes, the stories I could tell,

[Stanley Rockafella]

downshifting helps, then you don't have to use the brakes, the stories I could tell,

I've often heard that argument to "save your brakes" by downshifting.

But realistically, why are you saving them by downshifting wherein your wearing out something that's far more expensive and harder to access...the clutch???

Unless you are trying to avoid overheating and possibly warping the rotors on a long highway decline.

[AndrewBird]

I've often heard that argument to "save your brakes" by downshifting.

But realistically, why are you saving them by downshifting wherein your wearing out something that's far more expensive and harder to access...the clutch???

Unless you are trying to avoid overheating and possibly warping the rotors on a long highway decline.

Proper rev matching puts little wear on the clutch, so that is a moot point.

My sister wore her rotors out down to where the vanes were starting to show. There was no pad left, just the backing plate.

[cabriodster87]

That is "driving it into the ground".

[varg]

That is "driving it into the ground".

Or more likely, "driving it into a stationary object" when the brakes stop working completely.

[1craze30]

I wouldn't pull a lightbulb from that car.

[steve68]

I've often heard that argument to "save your brakes" by downshifting.

But realistically, why are you saving them by downshifting wherein your wearing out something that's far more expensive and harder to access...the clutch???

Unless you are trying to avoid overheating and possibly warping the rotors on a long highway decline.

it was a joke,

but a properly driven 5 spd will have no wear on the clutch, my 88 IS had 120k on it had to pull the tranny, for other issues, the disc had less than .030 of wear on it, I mic'ed it and compared it with a new factory clutch I had on the bench,

[Ether-D]

Price for front and rear passenger side discs shipped to 38476?

[Kershaw]

I've often heard that argument to "save your brakes" by downshifting.

But realistically, why are you saving them by downshifting wherein your wearing out something that's far more expensive and harder to access...the clutch???

Unless you are trying to avoid overheating and possibly warping the rotors on a long highway decline.

It takes less than a second to shift. That's the only time the clutch is wearing. Once it's engaged, it's not wearing down the clutch anymore. The next 20 seconds of braking are not using any wear at all. Versus 20 seconds of continuous braking are a lot of wear on the pads.