Copper grease – or copper ‘slip’ – is still used on pads and caliper pins – old habits die hard as they say. Copper grease is sold as an anti-seize and high temperature grease but it is NOT a good lubricant. Caliper pins sieze because they are invariably coated with petroleum based greases – like…
Red Rubber Grease….let’s use the acronym RRG – has been around for decades. The reason it’s been around for so long is because the compostion of RRG is pretty basic. RRG is made from vegetable oil, a thickener and red dye. Guys from the Lexus forum mentioned many of their members used it on brakes.…
Preparing to change the brake pads on your newly bought second hand car and you discvover the caliper bolts have been rounded off. Mmmhh. Do you cover them in WD40 and have another slice of cake or….? Eventually you get them out and anxious they don’t seize again cover the threads in grease – copper…
Heavy vehicles like the MItsubishi Delica take some stopping so they come with hefty twin pot calipers. Brake pads flex hugely under braking pressure and with a single piston the pads tend to lift at the ends reducing the area in contact with the pad so reducing braking performance. The idea behind twin pot calipers…
A car you rarely see at car shows is the Volvo P1800….a P1800s holds the world record for the number of miles driven on the same engine…over 3 million! A push rod engine, the story goes the block was a shortened version of a larger engine made for trucks…Most famously it’s the car…
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