[Spridgets] Help - Seemingly Incurable Brake Fade

GUY DAY grday at btinternet.com
Sun Oct 4 08:25:46 MDT 2009


Bill,

This is not true.  You need braking at the front.    

Please review
static and sliding frictional forces, you will see that if your wheels lock at
the back they will swing round and try to lead.  It is one of the reasons
front brakes are larger and provide more braking force than the rears.

Guy R
Day





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From: "corvallis at peoplepc.com"
<corvallis at peoplepc.com>
To: spridgets at autox.team.net
Sent: Sunday, 4 October,
2009 12:07:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Help - Seemingly Incurable Brake
Fade

Don' try to use front brakes only. You will lose control under braking;
the
car will swap ends. ...bill in oregon
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From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Kirk Hargreaves
Sent:
Saturday, October 03, 2009 3:41 PM
To: David Lieb
Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Help - Seemingly Incurable Brake Fade

David,

Thanks
for the input regarding my brake fade situation.  I also found
yesterday that
the spring - return spring on the brake side of the master
cyl had broken
off.  I replaced it. .  made it feel a little better.

I have some new lines
coming, braided lines for the front which might make a
difference.  As far as
the rear brakes go, I am tempted to not use them at
all!  Cut them off from
the system and let the front brakes stop the 1400 lb
car!  The fronts do over
70% of the work anyway.  . right?  Well, I am not
so sure about taking this
route, but it is tempting!

I am not sure how old the rear shoes are since
they have been on the car
since I bought it.  . about 5 years ago.  I am going
to pull the rear brakes
apart, fix the leak and put some new shoes in.

The
shoes that I have are in a green box from Moss.  "Made in England".  The
box
says ABS on the top front with a pic of the shoes on the green box in
yellow.
I would guess that these might be the poorly patterned shoes that you are
referring too . . But I have not installed them yet.

Thanks for taking the
time to give me your insight on the matter. .  it is
appreciated.

Kirk
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