Who needs brakes anyway?

Poida · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:09 am Post subject:

Is there a point behind that last post of yours Gene? All I can see is a feeble attempt to ridicule me (once again).

The main reason I post in that manner is because it annoys the fuck out of you.
(It's just the internet, get over it!)
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Gene FJ20DET · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:37 am Post subject:

Poida · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject:

Oops sorry. I forgot to add the quotation tags.

ozzie · newbie Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

Poida · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject:

I'm not quite sure what you meant about the 'my opinion' comment ozzie...??

In that case it's simple. The persons making the initial two posts don't see that the omitting of a spring is a possible problem.

I agree with your other comments. No way should a perons without experience in brakes be repairing their brakes without the supervision of another person who has experience and understanding of how brakes work. brakes may look easy enough but there are a number of complonents and if not correctly saaembled who knows what could go wrong. In that case they shouldn't have been repairing their own brakes.

If I might also add that another popular topic on brakes is the replacing of standard brakes with combinations sourced form other vehicles. Mant times people have told how they used part A of one car, part B of another anbd a combination of part C mixed with part D for the master cylinder/booster combo. Well that's fine but in most states ( I know it is in Vic and NSW) any alterations to brake systems where non factory spec components are used, you have to have the brakes inspected and certified by an authorise engineer. That includes a partial kit (like a Commodore front brake conversion from Hoppers Stoppers) because even though it is made to a standard, the manufacture of teh kit to a standard is not the same as the fitting to a standard. There needs to be a check to be sure teh kit is compatible with the rest of the system already in the car as well as on workmanship.

I'm not at all against people modifying their car but I see the need to check for quality and for suitability especially on something as important as brakes.

Quite a few things I've seen said on OzGemini can be seen as careless or confusing if you view them from the perspective of someone who knows the answers.
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fieldeffect · newbie Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

Obviously if some goon services the brakes on his gemini and stuffs it up and kills somone...

Then it only paves the way for more rediculous idiotproofing legistlation.

history has proven that if some knob head stuffs up and injures or kills somone ... no-one says "oh he was just a fucktard... not much we can do about fucktards"

They will say "no... its the car manufacturers fault for making the disk drums accessable to the operator...."

- its only going to cock things up for the rest of us - and it will be like 240V wiring in your house where you have to pay out your ringgear for a sparky to do some retarded simple job you could have planned and done yourself in 5 mins.

But on the other hand... there is little we can do to stop this stuff happening. Geminis will always have dodgy people trying to do dodgy stuff on them.