Re: sliding callipers anyone?

["Joseph Kanellopoulos" <kanellj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

my understanding is that technically there are both sliding and floating
caliper designs which vary somewhat but I was intending to combine them both
by calling them sliding.

Besides uneven pad wear does it tend to also cause "warping" or "wobbling"
on the rotors?

It would seem to me that if a rotor was turned and it was not done so
perfectly (which if one sees how the disc turning machines are.... i.e. not
a "real" lathe was used or the rotor was not mounted correctly" then the
sliding/floating system would exasperate the problem and maybe even
accelarate wear of the disc, since every system with mass has inertia and
hence delay, so there might be a tendency to lag the warpness of the
rotor....

Any feel on that?

I had heard very bad comments on rotor wear prior to my posting from
Alero/Grand Am and Intrepid owners which by the way claimed that the problem
is systemic......

Joseph

----- Original Message -----
From: "White Anthony" <anthony.white@domain.elided>
To: <alfa@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: RE: sliding callipers anyone?


> By 'sliding callipers', are you meaning what I've always called
single-piston floating callipers?
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