Time for the rear brakes. Since the front wheels typically do 80% of the stopping, we are not doing anything too crazy back there. First, we unbolted the rear calipers. We noted that the sliding pins were getting dry so we cleaned and regreased them while everything was apart.
The old drilled Stoptech Sport Rotor was removed. This rotor has probably been on the truck for something like 10 years and is still in decent condition.
The new EBC rotor is slipped into place.
We added these anti-squeak and rattle rings that EBC provided with the pads. The instructions say to use these over the OEM anti-squeak shims. They don’t seem like they do much but we will give them a try! The instructions warn not to be tempted to run these rings and the shims together so don’t try that.
Our rear brakes are now complete.
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I’m lost on why a radial mounted caliper is better when it has an adapter that bolts in the same as the TRD?
Yeah, technically the mount shouldn’t be much stiffer, but the caliper itself will flex less. Be interesting to see in FEA. To do it right you need a new hub. I always thought the radial design was too make it easier to install bigger discs on motorcycles. You can just shim it instead of needing new calipers.
The adaptor is bridged and many times stiffer than the OEM ears.
Very nice brakes. Really like the front rotor design. Does the master cylinder flex the firewall? There can be huge improvement in brake feel with a master cylinder brace, at least on compact cars.
Nice looking kit. How do you like the yellow stuff pads? I’m going to throw the blue stuff on my lx470 soon. I like their compounds and the fact that their pads don’t delaminate like other brands.
I haven’t run their stuff in a long time, they used to work well but wore fast and were dusty, these seem not to dust so far.
Hi Mike,
Two quick questions.
Do the Fig’s front pads have a similar coefficient of friction characteristics to the EBC’s?
If running a front brake upgrade such as this, with stock rear calipers, pads, and rotors, is it better from a brake bias standpoint to run pads with a higher coefficient of friction in the rear, if you find that the front end now tends to dive, with increased ABS activity under braking? Assuming that you do not want to add a proportioning valve to the system, and you have factory ABS and traction control present.
I don’t know the mu for the figs pads but the EBC is 0.42. The Figs pads don’t have tons of initial bite which is ok because the brakes have a lot of torque and I got the less aggressive of the two pads offered. The system feels like the pistons are slightly smaller than the TRD calipers. I would like to increase the rear pad volume for longer service life to match the fronts.
Not to be pedantic, but I think the yellows are advertised .48 while the blues are . 52. If you can get orangestuffs their mu is around .6
The Current EBC website doesnt list a Mu for the yellow which were recently reformulated. I found some old information that said .42.
How can I get these products 2017 Tundra
I mean we have links to Figs engineering in the story.