Another Brake Failure in Stock @ ENNIS DIV4

[indychamp02]

To add more on my post we used the aerospace adjustable brake rod. Thanks Steven Hall 4782 CSA

[countrypuppy4865]

Darrin,
I had a caliper bolt back out one time also. I always torque the caliper bolts and loctite periodically. Brakes are probably the most important thing on our racing equipment, but they do get over looked sometimes.

[Mike Voth]

We had a rotor hat bolt back out last year and about chew the caliper bracket in half! Wilwood sent a new one and said it was fairly common. Shouldn't ever happen if you ask me. Just follow ALL directions during assembly and most of these things are avoidable. We didn't use the wire through the bolts either, thinking we would just check them periodically...didn't work.

PS: The way we discovered this was during staging, dad couldn't get the car to "creep" forward consistantly. Sometimes it would take a little throttle and the car would lurch forward, staging too deep. The bolt would hang up on the rear caliper bracket, causing an inconsistant drag. He was very fortunate something bad didn't happen.

[Darrin Christen]

Mike, that is exactly the same thing that happened to me in Ennis. I was stagging the car in the second round and it would not roll forward into the beams until i gave it a little throttle, then it would roll and stop again. I thought for sure it was rock from that gravel we were pitted in that got hung up it the caliper, so I went ahead and stagged it anyway. It almost machined the bracket in half and slowed the car down .07. Yeah Cooter it's just one of those things that got overlooked. They will be wired soon!

[Stocker 449]

A few years back at the Ennis Divisional our Station Wagon's master cylinder for some reason went out just at the finish line. Talk about scary, I can only imagine that happening in a faster stocker. Never the less we went ahead and got us a nicer one than an O'reilly rebuilt. Glad to hear everything turned out alright.

[Jeff Kitchen]

Just to throw another hat in the ring, I bought my master cylinder from Master Power. The "seat" for the brake pushrod is a hole that is about 1" deep. It came with a rod that had a clevis on one end for the brake pedal, and a bare end to cut to length. Due to the depth of the hole, the rod will not come out without unbolting the MC and pulling it forward. There is not enough room between the pedal and the MC to get the rod out from the interior side. Believe me, I tried it!

I had a good friend put a super nice 9-second '72 Buick GS into a tree (I think it was at Mid-Michigan)because his brake rod came out. The whole front end was pushed back into the firewall. He was in the hospital for a long time, and still suffers back pain, now three years later. We all checked our stuff after that.

Glad to hear Gary was alright. I've always been a fan of the Emmons boys.