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Thread: Rear Brakes on a Consulier

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    Rear Brakes on a Consulier

    (to start with, these are the stock 1988 Fireo rear brakes Consulier used)

    I changed my calipers and pads when I first got mine. All worked fine.
    Now I replaced the pads with race pads, or tried to. Not working out so well.

    Looked up on line and found some info...

    http://home.comcast.net/~fierocave/brakerear-tsb.pdf

    But sure wish I had a video to teach me.
    These might be a great design, but I don't understand them yet.

    I need to get mine to adjust. I made things worse.

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    If I didn't need a rear parking brake I'd change them over to the same Mopar ones as we have on the front.
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    Re: Rear Brakes on a Consulier

    Not having an emergency brake bothers me a little on the race track for sure. I may have Todd at TCE fab something up for me.

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    Re: Rear Brakes on a Consulier

    How about a second caliper setup for a parking brake. I think brembo and willwood have some small calipers meant for this.
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    Re: Rear Brakes on a Consulier

    Ian Adams Function>Form 1990 shadow scrapped, too rusty:( 1991 Spirit R/T Scrapped, parts sold:( 1989 Turbo Caravan Daily beater with built-[I]ish [/I]​engine slowly evolving into weekend turbo beater.

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    Re: Rear Brakes on a Consulier

    Great stuff for great cars! Poly engine mounts and bushings at: http://www.polybushings.com

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    Re: Rear Brakes on a Consulier

    Johnny, did you see this:
    http://fierocave.home.comcast.net/~f...ve/brakes1.htm
    I've got a neighbor that has an 88 fiero GT and says they have to be super clean to self adjust or you'll be adjusting them manually until the end of time. Also says they like clean fluid.
    Just like drum brake hardware self adjusters...dirty=no worky

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    Re: Rear Brakes on a Consulier

    That link page is not for 88.

    but did get my brakes to bleed and adjust.
    now they work great. The yellow pads are amazing.

    have fabulous brakes now.
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    Re: Rear Brakes on a Consulier

    ok, cool, glad to hear the yellow pads work. I still need to do mine as well. I scuffed the pads ( they are almost new ) when I had the rotors turned but the brakes feel ever so slightly softer. I also think I have a bad hub bearing or u-joint because I have an odd fast squeak ( sounds like a dry u-joint while driving slow ) after I've been on the hwy for a little while. Now that the A/C system works well I've been trying to drive it a lot to find all of the bugs.

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