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Old 03-26-2016, 12:31 PM   #15
davepl
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Re: Disc/Disc proportioning valve!

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Originally Posted by crakarjax View Post
The real benefit of rear discs is not stopping power, but performance -- lower weight, resisting to fading, and you aren't baking your brake fluid inside a really hot drum during performance driving.
Indeed. Number of trucks that have ever overheated their rear brakes: 3.

Actually it's probably higher if you consider towing. But if you're doing rear discs, you better be doing some serious towing or road course action. Hot street driving (whatever the heck that means) won't require discs on the rear. Fronts, OK.
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