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Guys, use the assets the internet provides. Look this stuff up.

 

US10816049B2 - Brake caliper made from cast iron of a disc brake - Google Patents

 

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The invention is based on the object of further developing a brake caliper of the above type such that, with little outlay in terms of construction and manufacture, the load capacity thereof is increased, and the service life is lengthened.
 
This object is achieved by a brake caliper that having a caliper rear section and a caliper head which is connected to the caliper rear section by tension struts arranged parallel to and spaced apart from one another. The caliper head has a housing which encloses a receiving chamber for functional parts. The caliper head has, spaced apart from and adjacent to the housing, an integrally formed, protruding connector which accommodates a bearing bore for a fixed bearing. The connector is connected by an integrally formed rib to the housing, wherein the rib is extended across the connector into an outer edge region of the caliper head
 
As has surprisingly been discovered, the design of the brake caliper according to the invention, in the case of which the rib is extended across the connector into an outer edge region of the caliper head, results in the above described problem zones being relieved of load to such an extent that the risk of crack formation in the highly loaded region is minimized, at least to such an extent that such crack formation first commences, if at all, after a considerably longer usage duration of the disc brake, that is to say after a considerably greater number of load cycles.
 
Leave that rib alone!!
 

 

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OnTheReel
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Call me old fashioned, but grinding brake calipers seems like a really stupid idea. I’m not a GM engineer but I have to assume they put that hump there for a reason (other than messing up people’s cus

Grumpy Bear
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Guys, use the assets the internet provides. Look this stuff up.   US10816049B2 - Brake caliper made from cast iron of a disc brake - Google Patents   From this patent:   

OnTheReel
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Maybe the Titan sub really was “safer than crossing the street” if the roads are full of Silverados with ground down brake calipers. 😆

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10 hours ago, Grumpy Bear said:

 

 
Leave that rib alone!!
 

 

Tell that to Marilyn Manson.

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Maybe the Titan sub really was “safer than crossing the street” if the roads are full of Silverados with ground down brake calipers. 😆

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Holy hell! I thought guys that could afford new or nearly new trucks were smarter than this! Buy wheels that fit!!!! Might I introduce you all to a YouTube channel called Just Rolled In?  https://www.youtube.com/@JustRolledIn

 

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