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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Thanks Turtle for the kind words !
Here is something to noodle...
An explosion and that 'shock wave' doing the damage is just air, or a gas
The rapidly expanding gases from that explosion has them move so fast, that they
collide with the gas molecules in the way...and so on and so on...till they
stack up as a 'solid' wave expanding from the center of the explosion
That shock wave is just gas molecules smashed together into a solid...that then
hits whatever to then impart their stored energy.
A fire cracker, stick of dynamite, etc has gas pressure that can move and/or
damage. Ditto the ignited mixture inside our combustion chambers...it moves
the piston that is connected to an offset crank to turn the crank...
The caliper assembly will have the connective material between both
sides bend...AKA the bridge material between the piston side and anvil
On a single piston and anvil...the center will bend just like a multi piston caliper
Bend ever so much or enough to reduce the opposing hydraulic PSI on the friction material
That is what GM found in the report from Bosch (who the hired to consult on
why their GMT400 calipers were not doing well). They found that the calipers
were not stiff enough and bending apart...
Here is something to noodle...
An explosion and that 'shock wave' doing the damage is just air, or a gas
The rapidly expanding gases from that explosion has them move so fast, that they
collide with the gas molecules in the way...and so on and so on...till they
stack up as a 'solid' wave expanding from the center of the explosion
That shock wave is just gas molecules smashed together into a solid...that then
hits whatever to then impart their stored energy.
A fire cracker, stick of dynamite, etc has gas pressure that can move and/or
damage. Ditto the ignited mixture inside our combustion chambers...it moves
the piston that is connected to an offset crank to turn the crank...
The caliper assembly will have the connective material between both
sides bend...AKA the bridge material between the piston side and anvil
On a single piston and anvil...the center will bend just like a multi piston caliper
Bend ever so much or enough to reduce the opposing hydraulic PSI on the friction material
That is what GM found in the report from Bosch (who the hired to consult on
why their GMT400 calipers were not doing well). They found that the calipers
were not stiff enough and bending apart...
