Originally Posted by Trav
In Europe brake system dyno's are very common almost every garage has one but in the US for some reason they are almost unheard of,
This tool will provide similar information when you compare brake pressures between left and right, you will find bad hoses or calipers that are not working 100% right away before buttoning it up and finding out the brakes are not what they should be or has unusual brake pad wear patterns when everything else is nice and free,
Brake parallelism is usually not an issue but easy to check with feeler gauges and can be corrected with shim washers or shim stock. Reman calipers with brackets should be checked, sometimes they surface grind the bracket mountings and don't get it right.
Actually this makes a lot of sense and I should at least get these for my personal racecar and the one I went in on friends with.
In Europe brake system dyno's are very common almost every garage has one but in the US for some reason they are almost unheard of,
This tool will provide similar information when you compare brake pressures between left and right, you will find bad hoses or calipers that are not working 100% right away before buttoning it up and finding out the brakes are not what they should be or has unusual brake pad wear patterns when everything else is nice and free,
Brake parallelism is usually not an issue but easy to check with feeler gauges and can be corrected with shim washers or shim stock. Reman calipers with brackets should be checked, sometimes they surface grind the bracket mountings and don't get it right.
Actually this makes a lot of sense and I should at least get these for my personal racecar and the one I went in on friends with.