Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
[Re: Leigh]
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06/12/11 02:51 PM
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Shook my front teeth out. I expected them to have tighter tolerances than the $19 O'Reilly rotors.
did you call them? mine has never been bad enough to feel.
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Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
[Re: Quicktree]
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06/12/11 03:00 PM
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Shook my front teeth out. I expected them to have tighter tolerances than the $19 O'Reilly rotors.
did you call them? mine has never been bad enough to feel.
Oh yeah. The "tech" guy told me that they were stored "on end, that's why." He also told me the minimun spec was "as close as you feel comfortable with." There's some brilliance.
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Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
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06/12/11 03:08 PM
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keep in mind after the brakes have been applied it takes quite a few revolutions for the runout in the rotor to push the pads away from it. I think wilwood says like 10mph
Don't quite understand. The runout meaning the disc comes warped new? and the wobble in the disc returns the piston back off the disc? Then it will drag all the time i quess?
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Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
[Re: Dustin71]
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06/12/11 03:12 PM
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keep in mind after the brakes have been applied it takes quite a few revolutions for the runout in the rotor to push the pads away from it. I think wilwood says like 10mph
Don't quite understand. The runout meaning the disc comes warped new? and the wobble in the disc returns the piston back off the disc? Then it will drag all the time i quess?
thats exactly how it works, you apply the brakes they close and the run out pushes them off the rotor. but it should not be as much as Leigh had. you shouldn't be able to feel it. you need to figure out what M/C you have. you could have one with built in residual pressure.
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Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
[Re: MR_P_BODY]
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06/12/11 04:36 PM
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I've never had any problems with my race slotted rotors
I have owned 4 different sets and never had a minutes problem. and worked on a bunch more over the years.
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Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
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06/12/11 07:38 PM
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Well, I have only posted this about 20 times in the last year or so but my wilwoods were dragging bad and I rebuilt the calipers with the ROUND o-rings and they have been drag free ever since. If I bought a new set of wilwoods the first hing I would do is buy the round Orings and replace the flat ones that are in them. Quote:
The wilwood pads are very abrasive new,and making a dragging sound till you get them bedded good.
I also switched to the HAWK pads this week and cant belive how much better my car stops with them.
I was using the Wilwood E rated pads before and they were killing my rotors.
Hawk pads stop the car with half the pedal pressure.
67 Barracuda street/bracket car 11.27-119 68 Dart 502 BB 8.70s-152 414 cid SB Dragster 7.65-174
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Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
[Re: moparacer]
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06/12/11 08:13 PM
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Moparacer is right. When I replaced my square o rings it took 160 psi of air to pop the pistons out..replaced with round and only 15 psi. I also put a compression spring between the calipers over the cotter pin to ensure complete retraction. But make sure there is no residual pressure in the system.
The little old lady from Pasadena is back!
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Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
[Re: Barnstorm]
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06/12/11 10:30 PM
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Where does one get these o-rings?
72 Dart 470 n/a BB stroker street car `THUMPER`...Check me out on FB Dominic Thumper for videos and lots of carb pics......760-900-3895.....
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Re: Wilwood front Brake Drag?
[Re: Thumperdart]
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06/12/11 10:41 PM
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Got mine from Wilwood. Told me I was nuts to put a round peg in a square hole.
The little old lady from Pasadena is back!
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