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Subject:Re: Why Bigger Brakes Was Cause of brake rotor warping
From:Scott Daniel
Date:Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:32:38 -0700

I hope everyone recognizes it's better to cool brakes by driving and not
using them, then to just stop with very hot brakes.

On 9/13/2013 8:29 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> ---- Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET> wrote:
>> I certainly didn't do it on purpose. In both cases when it happened I just didn't think it would, but there was never a place to get off the brakes and let them cool. Constant downgrade and suddenly overheated!
> What gear were you in?  Was there a place to stop?  Maybe not, on some mountain roads there is no place to pull over.  But in a low gear one is usually able to keep the speed down enough to rest the brakes sometimes.
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>> On Sep 13, 2013, at 3:54 PM, <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
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>>> ---- Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET> wrote:
>>>> Haven't had to gear down yet, but I haven't gone over those two roads again either
>>> I don't have to be on brutally downhill roads to gear down and avoid excessive braking.  I have never overheated brakes, and I don't intend to.  mcneely
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