I suspect this is very true. In the 10 years I have owned my 88 GL I
have replaced the front pads many times. But until just this year I have
never had to replace the rear shoes. There was always plenty of material
on the shoes. But those front pads did wear out. So9 most of the braking
load does occur on the front brakes. To me this  is ONE of the obvious
reasons for going to front disk brakes by the engineers.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

rpc wrote:
> In respect to balance between front and rear brakes, the front does the brunt of the work in any vehicle.  It is unbalanced, learned this riding motorcycles.
>   Chris C 90mv
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> Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM> wrote:
>   I suspect sales in SA were higher than several hundred...
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> On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Sam Walters wrote:
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>> FWIW, there probably are at least several hundred Vanagons on the road
>> now with 15" front disc brakes and stock rear brakes. I don't
>> remember
>> any discussion of this creating any problems for any one.
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