What is the difference between diss brakes, and regular brakes?
2007-04-28 01:01:42 · 13 answers · asked by white_cowboy_1985 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
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Disc brakes use a rotor, calliper, brake pad [friction material] system
Advantages
- Even application
- Higher pressure application due to a larger piston(s)
- Better dissipation of heat
Drum brakes use drum, wheel cylinder, brake shoe [friction material]
Disadvantages
- Due to compact wheel cylinders the pressure is lower
- Brake material remains trapped within the drum causing glazing of the shoes
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2007-04-28 01:21:07 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. T 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Not a dumb question at all.
Disc brakes use a rotor that is a disc.... that where the name disc brakes come from. On the disc brakes the brake pads ride on the outside of the disc, so the disc cools off fast. Better than the old drum brakes.
Older brakes used a brake drum which had the brake shoes inside the drum. They got hot and dont cool off as good as disc brakes and were prone to what is called brake fade because when the drum got real hot is lost the braking effect, it faded.... and gets hard to stop a car when the brakes heat up and you get brake fade.
2007-04-28 09:44:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Disc brakes use brake shoes and callipers that squeeze onto the disc type rotors to stop , usually in cars they are in the front.
Drum brakes are usually in the rear and enclosed in a drum type casing .They use a cylinder and different type of brake pad that pushes out against the inside of the drum to stop.
60 % of braking power is in the front , 40 % is in the rear of most vehicles. Hope this helps.
Some sports cars or newer models use disc brakes in the front and rear now.
2007-04-28 08:07:34 · answer #3 · answered by Heads up! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
disc brakes are not new they have been around since the 1940 but they have improved a lot and are the best braking system. Disc brakes press against both sides of a rotating metal disc, while drum brakes press outward against the inside of a rotating brake drum.
2007-04-28 08:21:36 · answer #4 · answered by bungee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The difference is that disc brakes use a caliper to apply pad pressure to a flat disc while drum brakes use a cylinder to push pads on the inside of a round drum.
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http://www.carbibles.com/brake_bible.html
2007-04-28 08:06:02 · answer #5 · answered by ©2009 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Check out the web site below. It has photos and a good description of how brake systems work and the differences.
2007-04-28 08:09:03 · answer #6 · answered by R1volta 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The important things to know are that disc brakes are more modern and work much better than drum brakes.
2007-04-28 08:06:54 · answer #7 · answered by wildmanny2 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Dis brakes hold faster than the regular brakes
2007-04-28 08:05:39 · answer #8 · answered by boy_jam_arch 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
disc brakes,you got rotors and calipers and reg. brakes,you got shoes and drums and alot of springs.
2007-04-28 11:37:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
disk brakes when they come on, clamp down on a rotating disk, ware drum brakes, when they come on, press out wards aginst a rotating drum.
no not a dumm question at all.
2007-04-28 08:27:15 · answer #10 · answered by duster 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋