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Re: Brake Grabbing

To: "Les Myer" <lmyer@probe.net>, "Philip Hubbard" <phubbard@carroll.com>
Subject: Re: Brake Grabbing
From: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 08:48:55 -0400
Cc: <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Reply-to: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
The later Midgets DO have two pistons, one for each pad.

Steve Byers
Havelock, NC USA
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G  "OO NINE"
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool
than to speak, and remove all doubt"  -- Mark Twain


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> From: Les Myer <lmyer@probe.net>
> To: Philip Hubbard <phubbard@carroll.com>
> Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: Brake Grabbing
> Date: Sunday, July 12, 1998 12:18 AM
> 
> >>The whole caliper slides from side to side in its mounting.  This is
> >>necessary for the caliper to center itself on the rotor as the brakes
are
> >>applied and also as the pads wear.  If the caliper can't slide from
side to
> >>side, the pad opposing the piston will still be rubbing against the
rotor
> >>after the brakes are released, and this pad will wear out at a much
greater
> >>rate than the pad the piston is pushing on.   
> >
> >Tomorrow I'll have to go out and see if I can see what you mean on this
> >one.  
> 
> In the case of Sprites/Midgets, the caliper has to move back and forth on
> the mounting bolts themselves.  (If this weren't true you would have to
> have two pistons, one for each brake pad)
> 
> Les

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