[DeTomaso] Spongy wilwood brakes

MikeLDrew at aol.com MikeLDrew at aol.com
Sat Mar 3 10:56:17 EST 2007


In a message dated 3/3/07 7 52 27, hjbutler at bellsouth.net writes:


> You may remember about 2 months ago I was trying to figure out why my
> wilwood brakes were spongy. With ideas from the members I cased it down to
> the front calipers flexing. Well this morning I installed new billet 6
> piston wilwoods and the sponginess is gone. I have not driven the car yet,
> waiting for new rear pads, but the pedal is solid. I have been trying to
> solve this problem for 5 years hopefully it is solved. Anyone with spongy
> brakes and wildwood superlight II calipers should check this. It is not
> cheap but it appears to solve the problem.
> 

>>>Fascinating.

Did you have Wilwood 2psi (blue) check valves in the system?

I wonder if the problem was fundamental to the design of your old calipers, 
or if there was actually something wrong with them, or if the simple act of 
removing them, cleaning them out and reinstalling them would have had the same 
effect?

No matter, what's done is done and you've achieved braking happiness, so 
congratulations!

Mike (fighting his own Wilwood issues--rear rotors out of true to the tune of 
.023"!!!)


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