[Healeys] Disk brake dust shields

[Richard Ewald]

Disc brake shields do two things.
1. Keep brake dust off your wheels.
2. Make your rotors overheat and warp due to lack of air flow. (yes they
really do)
Rick

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Bob Haskell <rchaskell at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Herb,
>
> To reduce the amount of road dust and water getting on the rotor?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob Haskell
> AHCA 3000 MkI registrar
> http://www.ciahc.org/registry_3000mk1.php
>
>
> On 10/04/2016 06:05 PM, Herbert Miller wrote:
>
>> What is the purpose of the disk brake dust shield? Are they necessary?
>> We never used them on race cars. Did not put them on my Bugeye when I
>> restored it.
>>
>> Herb Miller
>>
>> 1960 AN5
>>
>> 1962 BT7 tri-carb
>>
>> 1967 BJ8
>>
>>
>>
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