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mych

Posted 06 November 2005 - 10:31 AM

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gunner,

It clocked 140k.

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Posted 06 November 2005 - 04:51 PM

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eddie/Tourist,

Thanks for the info. Maybe only on more expensive cars. Manufacturers have
to cut cost too.
All the cars I have owned have only either disc or drums.
Anyway, The Gen2 will be the same. If they have disc, no drums.

mych,

140k, that's too long. Drums brakes needs to be cleaned as the dust are
trapped inside, not like disc brakes where the dust can be washed away.
I normally sent to clean and adjust every 30k.

rdgs,

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Newkelisa

Posted 07 November 2005 - 06:03 PM

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So do ALL proton cars with rear disc brakes have no drum brakes?

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Madhusher

Posted 08 November 2005 - 01:03 AM

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newkelisa, let me try..

Threre are 2 type of brakes that is available for our car, irregardless of
Proton or other brand. Disc or Drum.

Picture :
Disc = http://images.google... brakes&spell=1
Drum = http://images.google...=&q=drum brakes

Most of our car (say, 15 years ago till now) have utilised disc for front,
and drum for rear. More expensive car will have disc for both front and
rear.

Parking brake normally utilised a cable to pull the brake together, as
vr2turbo explain. Normally, the mechanism is for rear brake. I'm not a car
expert, but I believe most car only lock the rear brake for parking.

So if you're car is using disc for rear, then it's locking disc brake. If
it's drum for rear, then it's locking drum brake.

No such thing as having disc and drum brake together in the rear (or
front, in any case), it's either one.

I hope this helps.

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BridgestoneRE711

Posted 08 November 2005 - 01:19 AM

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new kelisa ,
not really .
but usually , only one brake is nessesary . same goes to many manufacture ,
they just put one disc type . not dual type .

perdana has 2 disc and drum . it i am nto mistaken .

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Posted 08 November 2005 - 07:46 AM

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Madhusher

What tourist said earlier is true. There are cars that have both rear disc
and drum brakes. I can confirm to that as volvo cars ranging from their
240, 740 to 940 have both setup in the rear. Not sure with the newer models
though. The drum for parking and disc for braking. So my earlier statement
was going by my past experience with volvos.

However that is a conti car. What I'm not sure going by the discussion so
far is if this applies to japanese cars as well with rear disc brake eg
proton perdana, wira 1.6 or others. Sometimes the japs do design things
differently.

So I may wrongly assume a Gen2 has the same setup as a volvo as I wasn't
aware a car can use its rear disc brake for parking.


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Posted 08 November 2005 - 02:38 PM

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Hi. Isuzu did used the rear disc brake for BOTH braking and parking and it
was very problematic being very fragile and extremely easy for mechanic not
familiar with the setup to break the pin inside. I think that is why after
1991, they switched to having the type of arrangement that Volvo uses.

To confuse matter a bit. I was told Land Rover uses the gear box for
parking. Never know how it work or if it did.


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wong815

Posted 17 November 2005 - 09:27 AM

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Changed my Iswara Aeroback brake pad to BOSCH RM40, skimmed both disc RM50,
groved and worn out due to previous bad quality OEM pads....now less ,
almost none brake dust, and better confidence in braking power compared to
original state before service.

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Posted 17 November 2005 - 10:07 AM

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guys, will the brake dust collected in the drum brake cause the brake
mechanism to be noisy? recently i've just changed a new pair of break
shoes. they performed well on the first day, but after that, the noise
starts to appear, even noisier if i step on the brake hard. i believe its
caused by the dust collected. is there anyway to solve this? i cannot be
washing my drums every day just to get rid of the noise.

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Posted 17 November 2005 - 04:25 PM

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I doubt spraying the oustide of the drum would clear the dust INSIDE the
drum. The shoe and its mechanism are inside. Water is not meant to freely
flow in the drum itself anyway