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Posted by lowercasesteve
on 9/23/2009, 5:51 pm
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I finally took MS's suggestion and put new rear brake pads on. They came from my local parts store. The originals were from SSBC and were a lot more metallic. Braking is much better with the softer pads. Now I can actually skid the rear wheels under hard braking. Time to check out the setting on the proportioning valve to see if any changes are needed.
Brake engagement is now about an inch lower, but hard. I think I will bleed it again just in case.
BTW: the brakes are the large ones for 8" rears. They are the 84-87 SVO/T-Bird rear calipers. One bad part of the SSBC design is that the lower locating pin is right behind the spring. You have to totally remove the caliper from the axle to remove it including the brake line. I also found that the 2 holes in each piston were different distances apart. One fit my all purpose rear disk tool that screws the piston back into the housing. The other was about 1/8" farther apart. I drilled it out a little till the tool fit in the larger hole. I hope I did not compromise anything. The holes are only about 1/8" deep.
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