Showing posts with label brakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brakes. Show all posts
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Friday, December 11, 2009
eye candy
Above: 25 mph bumper car! http://clunkbucket.com/bumper-car-escapes-midway/ not as cool as http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-attention-like-nothing-else-at.html but close enough
Above: http://blacknotblack.net/black/?p=1103
2 cylinder engine, formerly an airplane tug... back then it didn't have those slotted mags
Saturday, December 9, 2006
Brake care and maintenance 101, from a FUBAR pic for visual aid
This took me a minute to grasp how this functions, I thought about racing applications, like the drilling and grooving for brake dust removal and cooling. Then when I couldn't get a handle on it, I know that some drum brake were finned really well on some early 60's cars.. esp. Oldsmobiles but this is direct brake pad to cooling fins... so WTF? Then I noticed the accompanying pic of an unwrecked rotor.
So that was my reminder that those cooling fins are BETWEEN SOLID STEEL PLATES! How in the hell could that FUBAR brake been driven to that extreme? No effing way that wouldn't jerk the car to one side like a tbone from a Mack truck if the barkes were hit.
So that was my reminder that those cooling fins are BETWEEN SOLID STEEL PLATES! How in the hell could that FUBAR brake been driven to that extreme? No effing way that wouldn't jerk the car to one side like a tbone from a Mack truck if the barkes were hit.
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