Thread: b13 11" Fastbrakes (Wilwood) Kit Help/Opinions...

Not sure what pads are in there as I didn't install the package... i've heat cycled them a couple times on the highway (press the pedal a little while on the gas or down hill) and then played a little the other day heading to the girls house (she has a few back road areas). Tried that cold and warm with similar results sketchy. It could just be the fact that there isn't any help from the rears at all. Which would make sense. It be feexed soon. I'll get down to the bottom of it.

Naw... if that was the case I would win because I have a large penis... hole. I crack porcelain toilets. I can unscrew a flat tip screw in wood by peeing on it. I can remove mortar from a brick wall. I can spin a top from a dead stop.

No, but on the real... this threads purpose was fulfilled. I wanted to know if anyone else had been dealing with what I have... It's evident the setup is a good setup and that I need to fix something. All the rest of the stuff is just added information, facts, funny stuff, random hearsay, and some reiterated stuff someone read somewhere else and reposted to seem smart just like every other thread on here. :::ducks::: hehe.

I tried helping. I quit this thread. My brain has exploded all over my keyboard.

That wasn't your brain...

lowl

Is that pronounced like owl, with an "L" sound at the beginning?

phonetically, its pronounced "Lole"....

Like the Massachusetts town Lowel?

Correct Sir

So I found out my issue...

After a few days of driving the car (I have been driving my truck as well) I found that the car vibrated like a mother and it was clicking when I turned right... It also made a lot of noise driving on the highway...... SE-R knowledge points to the car needing an axle. I was getting concerned so I took a look. Well I wish I had a picture... I found it wierd that the rotor was literally half a millimeter from the wilwood caliper!!!!

So I had to make an emergency call to my bud Sinistersntra91. Turns out one of the previous owners didn't tighten the axle bolt. The bearing literally was being pushed out of the hub to the point where the rotor was RUBBING the wilwood aluminum housing. By the time I had gotten the car to Brennan's the rotor was scraping. Upon taking off the axle bolt WHICH WASN'T TIGHTENED TO SPECS this is what happened...

It literally FELL OFF into my hand.


Heard about it before but wow... I swapped in hubs with newer bearings and got a new axle in... AND THEN I PROCEEDED TO TIGHTEN THE AXLE NUT TO SPEC... The braking is not as bad as it was and the noise is gone. Sucks cause now I need to get the rotor turned or buy a new fastbrakes one... well see.... I still ordered a u13 m/c and big brakes for the back to install next week I think that I'm going to replace the passenger hub/bearing just in case...

that happened to me the nut actually backed off cause i didn't have the cage castle nut cover thing on.