Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 08:31 am, by: Mike Bradberry(Halflife)
When I replaced my V8 brakes with TT's, I found a bit of extra performance. I don't just mean in the braking department, but in acceleration. I found that the release springs were not doing their job properly on the right hand side and releasing the pads as they should, thereby allowing one of the disc pads to be in contact with the disc. Not only was it dragging on that side, but in heavy braking the car would have pulled to one side plus the added wear is not something to be embraced. There are 2 piston like things that fit into the body of the calipers and they have rubber boots on them to stop dirt getting in. Check that these are in good operating condition and that they can move in and out without resistance, otherwise you are losing performance.
Monday, December 01, 2008 - 02:29 am, by: Callum Finch(Sigeneat)
It would be interested to hear how many other people have issues with sticky brakes. I had to have my front callipers rebuilt recently because one was slightly locked on and another was sticking on braking.
Remember that a Soarer can potentially be 18 years old now...
Monday, December 01, 2008 - 04:29 pm, by: Matt Newman(Soarersrock)
i had a rear caliper "slider" jam but it was due to a bit of rust and i freed it up and haven't had any problems up to now but if your calipers foul up it is probably time to rebuild them or upgrade
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 08:39 am, by: Gary Redman(Gary)
Mine had a seized piston on the L/H front just after I bought it. Back then (2001) there was no talk of fitting TT calipers and virtually no spares available. The Toy Shop wanted $800 for a pair of V8 calipers (wouldn't seperate them). A brake shop finished up rebuilding the caliper for $300. How things have changed
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 06:35 pm, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Just replaced all my disk pads on Sunday. Right rear upper slide dust cover was popped off and slider was jammed up with dust. Took it off and cleaned it up good as new. Sliding calipers are pretty stupid though.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 08:38 am, by: Ryan Posselt(Yakusaryan)
Can I Just say .... the toy shop is Sh*t. My uncle used to import 95% of the cars for the toyshop his probably imported 30 - 40 soarers in his time. But the guy who runs it now, Brad, is an arseh*le so I wouldn't trust them, they're a massive rip off as well as Gary has just pointed out.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 08:17 pm, by: Aaron Casey(Blownminiturbo)
yeah i travelled 5 hrs there to find the part they deffinately had in stock and was right in front of them was nowhere to be seen and when they could source one the price tripled.....
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 12:58 pm, by: David Ormsby(Phoenix)
I had an issue with LF caliper sliding pin being jammed, didn't notice until I went to change the pads. Took a fair bit of work to free it and not surprisingly better pedal feel afterwards.
Also RR caliper piston semi seized, which held only one of the pads slightly onto the disc. It started doing the same thing to new pads as well - meaning it wasn't just piston getting wedged or something, dust seal looked ok so might just be time for a full seal kit.
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