Comments on: Finds: A Professional Brake Tool Set http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:57:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Old Donn http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-10882 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:17:51 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-10882 Whoa! I said going, not gone. A camera's handy, but doing one side at a time is a pretty good reference too. A real time job aid. Whoa! I said going, not gone. A camera’s handy, but doing one side at a time is a pretty good reference too. A real time job aid.

]]> by: Nick Carter http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-9387 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:57:14 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-9387 The best drum brake tool is the digital camera - take pictures at each step of the disassmbly process... I find brake tools cheap at garage sales/flea mkts/pawn shops, a lot of people don't know what they are, or don't care. I think I have paid between 25cents and a dollar for each of the tools shown in that set. Of course now I just have disc brakes...but one never knows what vehicles the future will bring. A good dial indicator and magnetic base is useful on disc brakes for determining runout - I had a problem that was only solveable once I detemined I had a warped rotor (.007" out, barely discernable by eye when you knew what to look for) The best drum brake tool is the digital camera - take pictures at each step of the disassmbly process…

I find brake tools cheap at garage sales/flea mkts/pawn shops, a lot of people don’t know what they are, or don’t care. I think I have paid between 25cents and a dollar for each of the tools shown in that set. Of course now I just have disc brakes…but one never knows what vehicles the future will bring.

A good dial indicator and magnetic base is useful on disc brakes for determining runout - I had a problem that was only solveable once I detemined I had a warped rotor (.007″ out, barely discernable by eye when you knew what to look for)

]]> by: Chuck Cage http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-9377 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:53:30 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-9377 Gotta go with the above comment here... As much as I'd like them to all go away, I still seem to end up with a vehicle here and there that has one. My F150 has drums in the back, though my vintage Grand Cherokee and Miatas have (thankfully) discs all 'round. Gotta go with the above comment here… As much as I’d like them to all go away, I still seem to end up with a vehicle here and there that has one. My F150 has drums in the back, though my vintage Grand Cherokee and Miatas have (thankfully) discs all ’round.

]]> by: Myself http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-9295 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:19:01 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-9295 I wish! One factor that pushed my decision to get the sporty version instead of the base model when I bought my car was the presence of rear drum brakes on the base model. It appears there's no good way to implement a parking brake with discs, so even my rear discs have a little drum in the hub, just for the parking brake. Weird. I wish! One factor that pushed my decision to get the sporty version instead of the base model when I bought my car was the presence of rear drum brakes on the base model.

It appears there’s no good way to implement a parking brake with discs, so even my rear discs have a little drum in the hub, just for the parking brake. Weird.

]]> by: Old Donn http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-9279 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:07:47 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2006/12/26/finds-a-professional-brake-tool-set/#comment-9279 Good set, everything you need. Trouble is, drum brakes are going the way of the buggy whip. Good set, everything you need. Trouble is, drum brakes are going the way of the buggy whip.

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