The brake rotors are an important part of the disc brake system found in most modern cars. Many vehicles have disc brakes on the front and drum brakes in the rear, while others have four-wheel disc ...

It’s hard to think of a more important automotive component than brakes. The ability to stop your car quickly, consist ...

Your vehicle's brake pads play a pivotal role in its performance and your safety. If you want to inspect them yourself, ...

Press a pedal and your car stops, but how? The mechanisms that control a vehicle’s brakes are explained in this simple article. Most drivers understand how their brakes work in the simplest of ...

The predominant type is disc brakes, while a few cars still use drum brakes, typically on the rear wheels. In a disc brake, a metal disc called the rotor is coupled to the wheel. Each rotor is fitted ...

Drum brakes are a little more difficult to describe ... which squeezes the pads against the rotor. On a car with disc brakes, you can often see the shiny, silver-colored disc by looking ...

For disc brakes, you’ll want to look at your brake rotors and brake pads, while for drum brakes, you’ll be looking at the shoes and the drums themselves. Brake fluid is common to both systems ...

Some older vehicles used what were called brake shoes and drums. They worked in a similar way to pads and rotors, but they’ve largely been phased out in new cars due to the pads and rotors ...

Just like servicing disc brakes with rotors and pads, taking the job one step at a time makes it doable at home. I recently performed a complete overhaul of the rear drum brakes on an inherited ...

“Visually and with a tool, a technician can measure friction and drum thickness,” Pfost said. “With a disc brake, we have a tool to measure rotor thickness. A technician can also measure the ...

The following was published in CCJ's Air Brake Book, 11th edition, sponsored by SilverbackHD. CCJ's Air Brake Book is a complementary industry resource, courtesy of our partnership with ...

The brake rotors are an important part of the disc brake system found in most modern cars. Many vehicles have disc brakes on the front and drum brakes in the rear, while others have four-wheel ...