justice
Roll Me Over
Reged: 02/06/00
Posts: 3164
Loc: Coastal N Carolina, USA
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IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE! Gen 2 onto Gen 1 Brake Swap..
05/28/11 09:38 PM
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Today I had a total front brake failure (89 SWB) on way to the junkyard. The pedal went to the floor and luckily the rear brakes still locked and I was able to steer away from a rear end collision. I pulled over and saw brake fluid on the inside of the driver side front wheel. I clamped down the line on that side with a pair of vice grips and limped it home on the back roads.
When I got home I tore it down and found that the outer pad was missing and must have shot out during braking over extending the caliper pistons and thus leaking out the fluid.
When I did the swap to gen 2 calipers and pads about 3 years or so ago, I re-used the Gen 1 disks (rotors), which were thinner than the gen 2 disks. I had the gen 2 disks in the garage, but just never got around to installing them...Lesson learned. When the pads are near the end of their life there is not enough buffer in tolerance to allow for the caliper brackets to grip the pads..Not too sure what the specs were on the gen 1 rotors either, they may or may have not been turned down in the past and most likely it was a combination of the three, wrong thickness rotors+worn pads+worn rotors=Bad news...Lucky I didnt hurt anyone or myself. I know it was Kevin C I think that warned of this in the the swap thread...theory proven..
CONCLUSION: If you have done this swap, do it right and swap in the proper Rotors.
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99 Gen 2.5, fixing, awaiting build
89 SWB- 33's, ARB Front locker, SR rear locker/axle, SR F brakes, winch, WST Offroad Armor all Around, 2.85 Aussie T-case Gears
Sold: (2) 95 SR's, 86 SWB, 90LWB, 91 LWB
-Can Change a timing belt in my sleep..
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