| Brake fade is back with the warm summer temps! Got a question |
Subject: Brake fade is back with the warm summer temps! Got a question by damien89 on 2012/6/11 6:59:29 Hi guys, haven't posted in a while so here goes, Yesterday gave the vette a bit of a run then came to an empty area and used the brakes a bit heavy for three times in succestion so that the abs pump would work a bit. After 2 mins of leaving the area driving at 30 mph the brake pedal almost sank all the way to the floor. If i pump it twice it comes back up but then goes down again if i push it after 5 seconds. Then after 5 miles the pedal started to get the normal feel again?! Just a recap this vette has had new front calipers, new master cylinder, new hawk pads and new fluid in the last 2 years and it has just done 1000miles approximattelly. One thing i noticed is while braking is that the vette dived a lot at the front, i know that their is a brake bias spring that i can change to change the bias. What i'm thinking is could the front brakes are getting hot because of the front bias issue? Secondly, the brake fluid it has is delphi lockheed dot4 which has a wet boiling point of 163oC, after doing some research yesterday i found that their brake fluids with a wet boiling point of 200oC + Should i start by changing the fluid to a better one or was it a case of me overcooking the brakes? |
