DMiller
Senior Member
Just don’t release the magic smoke!
Discs fade. I know from experience when I got pissed off at my squeeling rotors on my pickup and rode the brakes for a few kilometers. Pushed that pedal to the floor and it barely did a thing lol.
I'm lucky to get 30,000 miles on my drum brakes
Fading brakes drum or disc is not really the issue with this thread, If a driver is having brakes fade drum or disc he needs to change his approach to driving. The issue is the expense
between the two drum or disc. And if disc is allowing or causing people to run faster and closer in traffic thinking they have better control then there is a problem right there. That is
a false sense of security.
Yep you got it. Last right of way I finished was 21 percent. Add in 20 miles of gravel to fill the drums full of dust and yes I've done a few brake jobs since 1972. Also new drums have less material and will not wear as long before they are too big in diameter.That's some really hard use. Logging? You can't be driving very many miles every day, or you would spend all your time doing brakes. 500 miles a day, that's only 60 days between drums.
My grandfather always used to say it was better to be a few minutes late in this world than to be years early in the next........My Dad and a few others I know call it situational awareness, KNOW what YOU are doing, HOW You are doing and WHERE you are doing. Drive defensively as those machines and people around you may not be, better to be 5-10mph SLOWER than drive off a cliff by overrunning limitations. Learned that or rather taught that by my Dad and the elder guys training me as I grew as a Mechanic.