Hi John,
I put Bendix kevlar 4wd pads on my truck part #DB13654WD they are meant
for a 100 series but my truck has the bigger disc rotors than yours as
it is a 1996. A friend changed his wheel brg's recently while I
supervised, the shop that selss the bendix pads was shut so we put
Toyota 100 series pads in his and Hamish's truck is a 92 like yours. The
pads were too big to go straight in the mainly fouled on the minor
diameter of the disc hub, with a bit of judicious trimming with the
angle grinder the slipped in, they are much thicker pads too so we could
not refit the anti rattle shims but still got the stainless heat shields
back in. If you have a lip on the edge of the discs you will have to
sand/file that off. As hamish had the rotors off to do the wheel bearing
change we just wiped over both sides of the disc with a sanding disc on
the angle grinder to polish off the outside edge lip. I don't like
remachining discs, as I have been caught with poorly machined rotors in
the past, and you then have to reseason the rotors and rebreak in pads
to the rotors (ideally you should not break in new rotors with new pads).
Hamish headed home, 150 miles away, and soon as he got home he rang me
and said the truck is competely different to drive it now stops.
In regards cross drilled and slotted, there has been plenty of debate on
the australian lists, the genearal consensus was that slotted is good
but cross drilled tend to pack with mucd then crack. The Australian
made DBS kangaroo paw rotors have a differnet internal finning to OEM
that improves cooling and a higher compressive strength to improve brake
feel
http://www.dba.com.au/default.asp on this page the top right or
'DBA slotted' is a good upgrade over stock. Your truck has the early
small diameter brake rotors.
This is a good explanation
http://www.dba.com.au/dba_catalogue_2004/HTML/pdf/Out/Application_Chart.pdf
it is only one page. As is this
http://www.dba.com.au/dba_catalogue_2004/HTML/Kangarooseries/kangaroo_index.htm
Cheers,
Craig.
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