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Old 2005-03-09, 12:06 PM   #7
Dean
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Front vs. rear...
A. Get a manual bias adjuster and become a brake expert
You don't exactly have to be an expert with the typical Tilton-style manual adjuster. It's just a knob, one way has more rear brake, the other has less.
Where might I find this knob? I would like to adjust a little bit.
Turning the knob will not magically even out wear. In fact, unless you are very careful, you can easily make the car dangerous on the street attempting to even out wear.

Front brakes wear faster because under breaking, weight shifts forward. There is no such thing as a Physics adjusting knob.

The factory errs on the side of safety by biasing braking to the front to keep the car from swaping ends under braking.

You don't need to be a brake expert to adjust bias, but realize it adjust how you car handles under braking, it is not a wear distributor.
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