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    Went Belly up.

    Thanx for all the advice . Decided to go with QFM only to ring up and be told they went out of buisiness last year. Hmmmm rang brakesdirect.com.au they recommended brembo ( I will be towing soon) asked about Dba said no good for towing. Brembo it is . $84 a set .Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by p.k View Post
    Thanx for all the advice . Decided to go with QFM only to ring up and be told they went out of buisiness last year.
    Bugger.

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    Brembo Disc cracked

    I pulled down the front right corner for replacing the ball joints and during the process I noticed that the ventilated disc was barely worn, yet the outer surface had one 2" surface crack. The casting doesn't seem to have cracked through to the ventilated space and is not cracked on the inner. I'll have to check the other 3 corners later as the car is sitting on 3 tyres with 3 more stands but all new discs were the Brembo brand. Has anyone had similar problems with surface cracks of any brands, and why do they surface crack? I haven't towed at all since I installed these brakes, and they brakes haven't got even warm since then, so .... I went to the local brake supplier in Woden and found they could order discs for the P38, RDA for $100 for one front single disc, but I thought that none were cast, heat treated or machined in Australia any more. So all are manufactured and imported, mostly from China, including DBA or any other no-name ones, or aren't they?
    MY00' P38 4.6 HSE

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    I fitted DBA Slotted discs front & rear with std pads also stripped down all 4 calipers & re kitted them as I found they were almost seized giving a hard pedal but little pressure obviously. I also fitted braided hoses all round. The change is remarkable much better feel & response!
    p.s I also re-kitted master cylinder with S/steel discs replacing the fragile oem plastic units.
    Dont take chances with brakes!

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    Best Brake pads !!

    Quote Originally Posted by garybrook View Post
    I pulled down the front right corner for replacing the ball joints and during the process I noticed that the ventilated disc was barely worn, yet the outer surface had one 2" surface crack. The casting doesn't seem to have cracked through to the ventilated space and is not cracked on the inner. I'll have to check the other 3 corners later as the car is sitting on 3 tyres with 3 more stands but all new discs were the Brembo brand. Has anyone had similar problems with surface cracks of any brands, and why do they surface crack? I haven't towed at all since I installed these brakes, and they brakes haven't got even warm since then, so .... I went to the local brake supplier in Woden and found they could order discs for the P38, RDA for $100 for one front single disc, but I thought that none were cast, heat treated or machined in Australia any more. So all are manufactured and imported, mostly from China, including DBA or any other no-name ones, or aren't they?
    on my VW transporter I recently had a disc disintegrate (one side only)
    I had a little bit of a shudder every time I braked and when investigated by a mechanic friend we found that the shock had leaked oil out and assumed that caused the problem
    A week later I heard a couple of clunks under the car and when I braked a loud “wirring” sound
    When I pulled over and had a look I could not see a problem as it was the inner side of the disc and the van is so low I couldn’t get my head around to look from the inner of the car
    I drove home only using the handbrake and gears to find the problem when the van was jacked up
    We now realise the shudder must have been a cracked disc☹️
    1985 110 Dual Cab 4.6 R380 ARB Lockers (currently NIS due to roof kissing road)
    1985 110 Station Wagon 3.5 LT85 (unmolested blank canvas)

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    If I was very clever, which I'm usually not, I would carefully clamp a ventilated disc, vertrically and parallel to the blade on a bandsaw, and slowly cut through the vented 'middle' pattern, this would look this picture. But how could this disc fracture evenly, yet it seems to not spin or rotated without chipping or locking the casting bits? I have, though, seen this machining process of DBA advertising of their new pattern disc castings, so it is do-able. Ummm.....
    MY00' P38 4.6 HSE

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