I would try Mintex M1144 compound. I've always found it excellent. You should be able to get the bleed nipple stubbs out with an EZ out extractor tool. S/ Euan Wotherspoon Assoc. Technical Analyst
mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Balkan Sustainment Hungary ******** INTERNET E-MAIL PRIVILEGED INFORMATION FOOTER ******** Privileged/Company Proprietary Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In case, you should destroy this message, and notify the sender at Brown & Root Services Corporation immediately. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 4:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Decreasing Braking Efficiency Over the Holiday's I finally got around to changing the brake pads and rotors on my Golf. I replaced the easily faded solid rotors with vented rotors and a set of Mintex red box pads. I broke the pads in as per the instructions on the New Dimensions Web page. Once the pads were bedded in the stopping performance was considerably better than before. I did notice that even though the braking performance was better they did need time to warm up they also seemed to have a very narrow band of working then fading even with the vented rotors. Now after putting about +500 miles on the rotors and pads the braking performance has dropped off quite noticeably. The pads don't seem to have the same feel they did and seem to fade quite easily after only an about 10 nonaggressive 50-0 stops in between red lights on a highway. One thing I must add is that the temperatures while I have had the brake pads in has never risen above the freezing mark. Heck in the last week I don't think it has gone much above 25 F here in NJ. I have already faded the pads tonight so much so that they give off that nasty hot brakes smell tonight in 15 F weather Has anyone had a similar problem? Have the pads been damaged or has the temperature not been high enough to work properly? Any and all comments would be greatly appreciated. Oh anybody know how much a set of front 9.4" calipers would be since I have rounded of the hex on the bleeder screws attempting to bleed the brake fluid? TIA Erich Regber _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
