I just thought I'd relate a story from the past couple of weeks.
Somewhere around 18 months ago . . not long after I got my TR-6, I had to
replace the brake rotors and pads.
I don't remember where I got the pads. . might have been a local parts store
for all I know.
One thing was obvious though . . . they made a TREMENDOUS amount of brake dust
on the front wheels.
A year and a half and somewhere around 20,000 miles later . . . I was surprised
to hear that metal on metal grinding when I hit the brakes on my way home from
work.
Since the TR-6 has to get me back and forth to work each day . .I improvised
and found a used, but not worn out set of brake pads in the stock pile. Filed
them down (there was a big raised section where the pad had conformed to a
cavity in the rotor) and put them in on the side that was starting to scrape.
I motored up and down the hills on the side streets and doing some heavy
braking to bed in my temporary replacement pads.
The next day . . on the way to work . . the other side started grinding.
CRAP! So I'm engine braking and using the hand brake as much as possible for
the day and on the way home.
That evening I went searching and found a new in the box set of Austrailian
(Repco maybe) Semi-metalic brake pads in the garage. They were old, and
doubtlessly purchased for the TR-4 . . . but the Moss catalog says they use the
same ones on the 6 . . so in they went.
They seem to work VERY well.
And after a couple weeks of driving . . . hardly any brake dust.
The old ones would have blackened my panasports by now.
I always figured I had slighly dragging front brakes and would get around to
putting in some Toyota 4 piston calipers one day. (can't get any cores from
the local scrap yard though)
I suppose I still could . . but I'd say the brake pad composition had a lot to
do with it too.
There's my story for today.
Scott Tilton
TR-6 with rear tires breaking traction on Icy roads yesterday . . . on sandy
roads today! Empty parking lots are lotsa fun!
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