Disc brakes used to be found mainly on the front wheels of vehicles, with drum brakes at the rear. Today most passenger vehicles have disc brakes all around. Each brake has a flat steel disc — you ...

When it came down to disc braking systems on Mopar musclecars, the evolution was one of simplicity versus complexity. From the mid-sixties through 1972, the compact A-Body cars ordered with the ...

With all the hoopla going on about the GM Brake Repair Litigation Settlement (on 1988 – 1993 Chevy Lumina, Buick Regal, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, and Pontiac Grand Prix automobiles), I thought I’d ...

Jeremy Richmond was facing the same dilemma as many have when making wholesale suspension and drivetrain mods in order to run healthy motors and tall tires on older 4x4s: Stopping power. His ...

Many moons ago, this tech editor—when he was a feature Editor at Jp Magazine—wrote a story called "Drum to Disc. "It's an article about adapting some Ford and Chevy brake parts to add disc brakes to a ...

The parking brake, or emergency brake, is usually attached to a car’s rear wheels. On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the parking brake is usually attached with cables to the rear brakes, as shown in ...

Disc brake calipers may mount on the rotor "in lead" or "in trail," which refers to their position relative to the spindle or axle centerline. In nearly all cases there is no real-world performance ...