Brake Mounting location
Brake Mounting location
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Would someone explain what determines where to mount a brake caliper, ie. why should the brake caliper be mounted on the front side of the rotor rather than the rear, and vise versa.
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RE: Brake Mounting location
Some considerations include: packaging (e.g. avoiding the steering link), stress on the upright, polar inertia moment (racing only).
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RE: Brake Mounting location
RE: Brake Mounting location
No
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RE: Brake Mounting location
Could you eloborate, what affect does it have, if any?
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Lou
RE: Brake Mounting location
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RE: Brake Mounting location
Thanks
RE: Brake Mounting location
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Cory
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RE: Brake Mounting location
Thanks
Lou
RE: Brake Mounting location
I suppose cooling could be a factor. I use ducting to the brakes in any case.
Rod
RE: Brake Mounting location
Under cornering loads, the wheelbearing flexes which causes the rotor to be at an angle relative to the pads. This spreads the caliper. The next time the brake is applied, their is a dead pedal band as you bring the pads back to the rotor. This is worse with certain types of calipers. (opposed piston)
-Joe
RE: Brake Mounting location
Not so important on cars.
Harvey.
RE: Brake Mounting location
RE: Brake Mounting location
But you may think of it as a cowbar acting from the tiregrip to the spindle axle and caliper. We like to keep those loads as low as possible bot not to the extend of changing load direction in the wheelbearings during hard braking. In such case the caliper location could be mowed clockwise in the right direction.
I am not saying this is important, only that the fhenomenon exsist and that it could be uset to the advantage.
Goran Malmberg
Hemipanter