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Brake Discs
freeagent:
just another thought...
you can find a good, second-hand disco front axle complete for about £140ish..
this would give you a pair of calipers to refurbish at your leisure, a spare diff, 2 CV joints, 2 half shafts, 2 stubb axles... and al lthe bits you don't want you can flog off...
just an idea...
I need a new pair of chrome balls this year and am thinking of doing the same...
Tyke:
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Hmmmmmm . . . or the 130 specials?
Will do a check on that :wink:
--- Quote ---Solid discs and good calipers work fine unless you are continually braking very hard like around a race track
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Or driving steep road descents . . . . . personaly, I think the standard brakes could do with improving if you drive anything but a bog standard vehicle.
I know I've had land rover brakes smelling rich more than once . . . .
Leslie Henson:
Just because a caliper is rotten and heavily rusted, it doesn't mean it's beyond repair. I stripped, cleaned, and re-furbed a pair of calipers off a 90. Thread with pics here:-
http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=2851
Les. :)
DiscoJim:
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--- Quote ---Solid discs and good calipers work fine unless you are continually braking very hard like around a race track
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Or driving steep road descents . . . . . personaly, I think the standard brakes could do with improving if you drive anything but a bog standard vehicle.
I know I've had land rover brakes smelling rich more than once . . . .
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You could always use a lower gear and let the engine do some braking when going down steep hills. My Disco has been tweaked and I also regularly pull a heavy trailer and have never had problems with the brakes as yet anyway.
I did a track day in my Merc at Bruntingthorpe, after 7 or 8 continuous laps the brakes did start to smell but that was pretty extreme driving.
Range Rover Blues:
If you want to fit any sort of performance pads the supplier will recomend vented disks. I've never had a balance problem with them.
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