Brakecaliper dustseals
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Brakecaliper dustseals
Hi... I am thinking of uprating my brakes and I am offered a set of bigger race calipers.. but without dustseals.. HOW important is it that there are dustseals on my EscCos ??
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I run tarox calipers without dustseals. Sometime get the odd sticky piston if I haven't cleaned the car for a few weeks. Usually just spray some wheel cleaned around the pistons and wash it off with the wheels, seems to keep em free.
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Dust seals are actually better called corrosion seals
If the caliper is aluminium and the piston is stainless steel then there is nothing to corrode so the seal isnt needed.
They came about due to the mass production of mild steel chromed pistons in cast iron calipers which after a while begin to rust and will stick. This seal helped to prevent the rust forming.
What are the pistons made of ?
If your brakes are that dusty that you need to clean them every month then your on the wrong pad compound and could do with changing to a lower dust emitting one
If the caliper is aluminium and the piston is stainless steel then there is nothing to corrode so the seal isnt needed.
They came about due to the mass production of mild steel chromed pistons in cast iron calipers which after a while begin to rust and will stick. This seal helped to prevent the rust forming.
What are the pistons made of ?
If your brakes are that dusty that you need to clean them every month then your on the wrong pad compound and could do with changing to a lower dust emitting one
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Originally Posted by NUTS RuS
Dust seals are actually better called corrosion seals
If the caliper is aluminium and the piston is stainless steel then there is nothing to corrode so the seal isnt needed.
They came about due to the mass production of mild steel chromed pistons in cast iron calipers which after a while begin to rust and will stick. This seal helped to prevent the rust forming.
What are the pistons made of ?
If your brakes are that dusty that you need to clean them every month then your on the wrong pad compound and could do with changing to a lower dust emitting one
If the caliper is aluminium and the piston is stainless steel then there is nothing to corrode so the seal isnt needed.
They came about due to the mass production of mild steel chromed pistons in cast iron calipers which after a while begin to rust and will stick. This seal helped to prevent the rust forming.
What are the pistons made of ?
If your brakes are that dusty that you need to clean them every month then your on the wrong pad compound and could do with changing to a lower dust emitting one
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