Someone told me you're only meant to put that under the oil filler cap rather than the break discs? Now i know where i'm going wrong
good thread! About 3 months ago I watched my next door neighbour jack up his Asstra, take a front wheel off and start spraying everything in wd40... And I mean EVERYTHING, inside the wheel, brake disc's, calliper, pads, the lot, it all got a serious dousing! He then dropped it down and started in the other side, as I was leaving the house I asked what he was doing, apparently his "mechanic" (yea right!) had told him to do it to cure all the brake squeal he was getting...
I put a can of WD40 in the fuel tank every time I fill up as well. I really makes the car go faster. I can tell because it smokes more than it used to. I reckon it makes at least an extra 14 bhp. The lighter breaks add another 12 bhp, which is pretty good I reckun.
the wd40 trick does work, my breaks were uber quiet after I gave them a good dousing..... it's a trick of the trade, probably why you hadn't seen it before
Nah its all in the mind on that fuel mod. It was der WD40 on da breaks dat acuunted for all the difference.
ive changed brakes in the past. i personally feel brakes are needlessly heavy. once the car is loaded with a few crates of whisky, a kilo of smack and a bin bag full of needles, youre set got a banging night out but youre tipping the scales in the region of "go to weight watchers" here is what i did to my last set of brakes. grind them down a touch, remove unsprung weight to help agility to compensate for your beer and crack addled brain might not suit everyone
You had me going up until then, but that mistake showed your cardigan up from underneath your tracksuit! Ian...
and if youre not totally satisfied with your breaks, dont ever both to just maintain them properly, just keep buying bigger and bigger diskes and pads (brightly coloured, theyre better) dont ever bother to change the fluid for something decent or replace worn hoses. sorting out slider pins is for wimps, seized callipers are for real man. mcguiver has seized callipers and hes a hero
Open rear doors, throw battery across the floor, and it'll to come to rest in a suitable place. Then get some old lighting circuit wire, use one for the earth, self tapped into the van floor (just posidrive screw and washer), and run the other one around to the ignition barrel - strip some insulation off, wind it round, and reinsulate with gaffer tape. Just a single bungee cord needed to help keep the battery in place - the earth wire will hold most of it anyway
