Recent content by PatMc

Those are made by Cardone, which is now owned by the First Brands group....who has screwed up Centric and Raybestos in the previous several years. Their policy now is to re-use phenolic pistons, after running them through a centerless grinder to "clean them up". Phenolics begin to...

You've contradicted yourself. Brakes convert kinetic energy into heat...plain and simple. A rotor is a heat sink. For a given braking event, X amount of energy will be converted into X amount of heat. If we put that amount of energy into a plain rotor with greater mass and also as...

wrong, it is fact, and the reasons have been pointed out. Reviews are what you make of them...example: I had a customer who for years purchased the cheapest bottom of the barrel pads and rotors they could get their hands on, did their own slotting / drilling / zinc plating, then sold them as...

Having spent the better part of my career in the brake industry, I'm somewhat of an authority on the subject. A plain rotor would have been a better choice for several reason, but one holds more weight than all the others based on the pictures of the old parts: You are clearly in an area when...

Check it again when you have time...(if you still have it) ... I've seen a whole lot of throwout bearings that sort of "float" on the hub to help it stay aligned and self center through the range of motion of the fork. That might be what you're seeing.

Plenty of guys launch with TJs and YJs at our ramp, but it isn't very steep or slippery.

That would be disturbing, as National is an aftermarket brand of Federal Mogul (Now DR1V). Every National brand bearing I've bought in the last 20 years has been chinese.

Sort of...a lot of their ancillary components supplied in the kits are not (hydraulics/TO bearing, etc) sometimes. They are typically very good though, if not OE.

The old clutch is marked "PHT"... stands for Perfection Hi Test. We sold those for a while while I was at Centric Parts but they were pieces of shit so we stopped. Anything LUK brand will be OE quality or better...I wouldn't think twice about using their clutches.

Yep. Mine was all broken up inside...rattling like crazy. I thought it was just the exhaust hitting the body when I bought it....went and smogged it, passed with great numbers, then a few weeks later did some work on the exhaust to get it off the body and it still rattled, so I pulled the...

It was late last night so I got back after it this morning after reading through the ARB manual...the "master shim" is not present between the air collar and bearing. A whole bunch of extra shims are present where they shouldn't be. ARB says the shim kit for my unit has been discontinued. I...

Dude...I have good Google-fu, and even asked ARB for that...and couldn't find it. Thank you sir.

I bought this thing a while back thinking I'd get back into wheeling...and I needed a 3rd vehicle while I tore my truck down to do some repair, but things have changed...got laid off with the COVID 19 thing, and would rather just thin the heard at this point. It's a '97 TJ...sahara I...

It's not right. I will post pics tomorrow, but for now....from drivers side to passenger side, from housing casting to housing casting.. 2 shims that appear to show some bronze with grease grooves...old clutches from something that happened to be the right size to use as shims 3 oh.2.thin...

I will ask you this...given the following... (quoted from the document you posted) IAT stands for "inorganic acid technology", OAT stands for "Organic Acid Technology".... It can be one or the other, not both. There isn't a single product that can meet both specs. How can this miracle...