Cooling your brakes
Being from the east coast I've yet to encounter my brakes heating up enough to require pulling over to let them cool down, at least not that I know of. This summer/fall we're doing our first trip out ...
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Tystevens wrote:Padlin wrote:
So what everyone is saying it with proper braking one should not have to be concerned with pulling over to let the brakes cool?
You've got it. We have come down most of the steepest, longest Interstate passes in the West and never had an issue with hot brakes. Even in our lowly 1/2 ton gasser!
Well maybe if everything is set up and running perfectly - and we all know that is rarely the case. Better put is that with proper downshifting/engine braking (however your vehicle does it) braking should not be an issue.
On a couple of miles long winding back roads with multiple grades to 13% I just downshift and rarely touch the brakes. Coming down the Duffy Lake Road into Whistler last year I kept smelling hot brakes. Pulled over half way down to be sure and it wasn't coming from me. Wheels weren't even that hot.
