Let's talk fender preservation. Let's talk numbers. According to Motor Trend's instrumented testing from back in the day, a bone-stock '67 SS350 Camaro required 156 feet to decelerate from 60 mph. In ...
There’s no question that replacing original drum brakes with disc brakes is one of the best safety upgrades you can make to a vintage Mustang. Today, the options include modern calipers and rotors, ...
If you’re thinking of a “hot swap,” one of the changeovers near the top of our list would have to be swapping out OEM front drum brakes in favor of a set of front disc brakes. Disc brakes have ...
Luckily, no one was hurt, and the damage to the front of the Fury was minimal-a bent bumper and grille and a few tweaked brackets. If the same thing had happened two days earlier when we were doing 70 ...
With all the hoopla going on about the GM Brake Repair Litigation Settlement (on 1988 – 1993 Chevy Lumina, Buick Regal, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, and Pontiac Grand Prix automobiles), I thought I’d ...
It’s long been common practice for fans of muscle-era cars to upgrade the four-wheel drum brakes, typical of that period, to front discs. For years, doing so required sourcing parts from donor ...
Kenworth Truck Company announced it will make Bendix(R) ADB22X(TM) front air disc brakes standard on Kenworth Class 8 tractors and trucks. The Bendix ADB22X air disc brakes have a two-pin floating ...
Mack Trucks was at the Great American Trucking Show highlighting the recent availability of air disc brakes and dispelling some myths about the product. Jerry Warmkessel of Mack Trucks said there has ...
Front brake discs and pads replaced by BMW 18 months/approx 12,000 miles ago. Now they appear to have warped, causing vibration/juddering when braking at speeds above 50 mph. Independent garage says ...
Some Shimano quirks with the lever clamp and bleed procedure; rattly pads; some won’t like their super-direct feel Shimano’s SLX mountain bike groupset is the workhorse of its range, at times ...