04-24-2012, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by sixpax
...noob question though...I thought the caliper was actually the item that was most responsible for heating the fluid to the boiling point ?
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It is, for getting to that fail point. However you will get pad fade and typically experience ice-mode long before the fluid boils. You see higher caliper temps when there is less pad material left, but he had brand new pads in this case.
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Originally Posted by sixpax
also I wonder if it would do any good to drill some holes in the dust shields ?
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At that point you might just as well remove them altogether.
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