Recent content by mrblaine

I don't know the answer to that, but I do know I've seen many TJ axles which are the same stub come from the factory with the slingers on with the flange on the inboard side which renders them useless at doing any thing as far as protection. Like everyone has said, I don't even bother to...

If we can find a way to make the WK caliper work, then I can match that up to the thicker WK rotor and open up some options for us to use a shallower rotor to move everything just a bit further away from the knuckle. While that set-up for Matt, Richard, and Cal will work fine, it was far to...

Van has to list an optional pad in case one or the other is not available. There hasn't been a set of the Yellow pads shipped for the 46 or 48 mm calipers for over a year and only then because the 833's were out of stock.

I guess I wasn't clear, there was no issue with Porterfield or their compounds, or their work in relining my shoes. The issue was I overpowered the components due to a faulty design and application. I did the design and application.

The big issue with the non race EBC stuff is how you break them in. If you overheat them in the first 500 miles of stop and go, they are trash and you should toss them in the nearest rubbish bin. So since you've hit me with many tech questions, it's my turn. At what temp were the Hawk pads...

Well, if you had Explorer Calipers, I'd send you the sets of Regular Hawk and Hawk HP+ pads we tested and found severely lacking in performance compared to even the EBC Greens. They are at best a mid level performance pad and aren't even in the same class as the Black Magic stuff. I'd even throw...

I've sat here and typed out what was well over 6 or 7 paragraphs of info explaining a whole bunch of things, but at the end of the day, no one will really care about my drivel. I'll be a bit more succinct. Here's the bottom line. Stock brakes suck. We sell parts for stock brakes only because...

Not that I doubt you, but when I first developed the Vanco Kits for Van, he sent out instructions specifically telling folks to use Red Liquid Loctite. The folks in the rust belt times at least 5 tech calls that I took, all decided that anti-sieze was a much better thread locker than Loctite...

If you lost 3 of the bolts, then you did not use Red Liquid Loctite on the caliper saddle bolts upon the initial install. If they were supposed to have lock washers, they would have been included. Lock washers for the most part are a waste of time and money and haven't been a viable solution...

No I do not. I live in SoCal, they would likely frown very highly upon a brake pad factory in this part of the world.

Not really, all I have are the edge codes and those are pretty useless.

I'm glad they work for you. No, I don't believe we've ever met. Yes you have the Explorer calipers or the Explorer Sport Trac calipers. If you don't have the Sport Trac versions, you should. They are a direct swap and have larger pistons in the same physical external dimensions. I highly...

Bracket and modified knuckle. But, all the rest of the parts are common and easy to get at a well stocked auto parts store that's worth it's salt.

Just to clarify, your race rig runs the same brakes that is the standard 16" Vanco Kit.

We did a lot of testing of the Adaptive One stuff because the premise seemed sound and at one point when we could not get other higher performance pads, they were used in a few of the Vanco kits. At best they are a mid grade pad and I believe they are overpriced for the performance level...