Re: Trailmix Beetle
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 7:33 pm
Great... now sell it and buy a bus.
The high runout will cause knockback and like you said a poorly feeling pedal. It will also cause material transfer to the rotor on the high spot and that will cause judder and pedal pulsation if the pad material has poor cleanability.Dual Port wrote: ↑Tue Mar 14, 2017 10:20 pm Keith brought me a disc brake setup to install on the ’66 Beetle.
Mount the spindles and rotors. What’s this wobble when I spin the rotor????
Let’s figure this one out- the rotor has .022” runout, not good. This will cause a low pedal, noise from the cal slides, but not pulsation like most people think. That’s caused by parallelism.
Runout on the hub is .010”, the problem is in the hub and the rotor is probably OK. I’ll let Keith take that off and send it back.
BUT- all in all, the CB kit is a poorly engineered POS. I would NEVER suggest someone buy one. Sean's disc brake kit was crap too, but not nearly as bad as this. Why can't these companies engineer something that works? WTF is the problem with these people? Ugh! It's a real fight to properly install something that's this bad, just terrible.
Go to Susquehanna MotorSports and buy this switch and your troubles will be over. Yes it is $18 but you don't have to worry about it having a catastrophic failure like the $5 Chinese switch. I have had one on my truck for 15 years with no issue.trailmix wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2017 12:59 pm My wife was driving the beetle and I was following her coming back from an event last weekend when I noticed the brake lights we not working. She pulled over and I investigated the problem.
Well, the brake lights work great....but only when a LOT of pressure is put on the brake pedal.