Re: IML: Budd Pad & Caliper Update - 1967-1969

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, the good ones are 7/16 or terribly close.  The OK
ones are around 5/16, but I don't want to over-sell
and have someone complain.  

Most people are likely not all that hard on their
Imperial brakes, so 5/16 could go for decades, at
least at the rate that I put mileage on my various
cars.


-K


--- "Klebert L. Hall" <swampyankee@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: IML: Budd Pad & Caliper Update -
> 1967-1969
> >
> > In the process, I found 2 5-gallon paint buckets
> full
> > of D-10(?) pads.  I don't know if that's the right
> > name, but they fit the budd cores, so they're Budd
> > pads regardless.
> >
> > I split them into 3 piles:
> > ===========================
> > BAD - will toss these into the crate with the
> calipers
> > - maybe he can make something out of them?
> > ===========================
> > OK - used but minimum 50% life left, probably more
> > ===========================
> > Good - thick, like a number 2 pencil or better.
> > ===========================
> >
> > I have approximately 3 sets of GOOD and 4 sets of
> OK.
> >
> > With the low miles that our cars get put on them,
> the
> > OK ones might be just fine for someone for quite
> some
> > time?  Good as spares?
> 
>     Kenyon, just so you know - I have a spare set of
> these pads for my car, 
> new in box.
>     The friction material is 7/16 of an inch thick,
> for comparison purposes.
>     This is not to say that the used pads you have
> are not a valuable 
> resource, if I didn't have the spare set, and my car
> was on the road, I'd 
> buy a quartet myself. Sounds like the 'good' ones
> will last a good long 
> time, and the 'OK' ones are good for a while.
> 
>      The pads don't wear terribly quickly, I have
> over 40,000 miles on the 
> ones in my car, and they aren't gone yet.
>       -Kle.
>       '69 Crown 4DHT 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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