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Re: Describe "antiseize on caliper sliding areas" Posted by SWEDECAR [Email] (#112) [Profile/Gallery] (more from SWEDECAR) on Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:09:49 In Reply to: Describe "antiseize on caliper sliding areas", skytom, Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:59:56 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
When living in an area like yours, it also important to clean the surfaces of calipers where the pad "hooks around" and slide on the caliper.
Since the pad mostly sits still and only move a minute distance over long time, it can seize to the caliper at those contact areas and it doesn't take much for the pad to hang and start wearing sideways.
So you need to use some good sticky grease like silver grease or copper paste that will stay there for awhile and maybe even remove the pads halfway through their life and do it over again.
Many and most just slap the pads and rotors on and let it go until they are rusted solid and then replace them with new again.
Which method is better is hard to argue.
I drove a Volvo last summer in Sweden on a 6 hour round trip with fully loaded trailer behind with all 4 rotors pretty much looking like this and at least one brake pad seized in each caliper. The brakes were shaking a little bit but the car stopped just fine.
When I helped my friend a few days later changing the brakes I couldn't believe how the car could stop so nicely with brakes looking like that.
So with this hysteria going on right now with bigger and thicker and better brakes, you wonder how much is really needed since we are not allowed to drive any faster anyway.
Brake pads and rotors in the rear of a modern Saab are usually twice as big and thick as the front ones were in early 80s.
Anders
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