Hi All,
Looking for some input here, in short my brakes are starting to stick slightly when they get hot (regular road driving).
After a longer journey the car is harder to push on the flat however once its cooled down its glides along with very little effort. Both front wheels are suffering the same.
Giving you all of the facts:
Newly rebuild R32 Calipers by BigRed (within the last coupld of thousand miles)
New Vented disks (within the last coupld of thousand miles)
New Porterfield R4S pads (within the last coupld of thousand miles)
Braided brakes lines, seen some miles but seem perfectly serviceable
New 15/16 Brake MC (recently fitted and new adjustable rod made)
DOT 4 Brake fluid
What I've worked out to date is that the rears are completely unaffected after a longer journey.
Now this only seems to have been an issues since we've changed to the new bigger MC however when the car is hot we've disconnected the MC and nothing changes in terms of rolling resistance so I've ruled out any issue there.
By deduction in my head there either has to be an issue with the calipers or pads, I'm inclined to say its not the calipers as before the MC change I had no issues like this and they were so recently rebuilt.
In my head I'm wondering whether the Porterfield pads are expanding under the heat and taking up the slack space therefore making the calipers stick? Am I misisng something?
Any input greatfully accepted.
Looking for some input here, in short my brakes are starting to stick slightly when they get hot (regular road driving).
After a longer journey the car is harder to push on the flat however once its cooled down its glides along with very little effort. Both front wheels are suffering the same.
Giving you all of the facts:
Newly rebuild R32 Calipers by BigRed (within the last coupld of thousand miles)
New Vented disks (within the last coupld of thousand miles)
New Porterfield R4S pads (within the last coupld of thousand miles)
Braided brakes lines, seen some miles but seem perfectly serviceable
New 15/16 Brake MC (recently fitted and new adjustable rod made)
DOT 4 Brake fluid
What I've worked out to date is that the rears are completely unaffected after a longer journey.
Now this only seems to have been an issues since we've changed to the new bigger MC however when the car is hot we've disconnected the MC and nothing changes in terms of rolling resistance so I've ruled out any issue there.
By deduction in my head there either has to be an issue with the calipers or pads, I'm inclined to say its not the calipers as before the MC change I had no issues like this and they were so recently rebuilt.
In my head I'm wondering whether the Porterfield pads are expanding under the heat and taking up the slack space therefore making the calipers stick? Am I misisng something?
Any input greatfully accepted.
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