Types of Brake Calipers

Types of Brake Calipers A brake caliper is one of your car or motor bike’s most critical components. Without a working brake caliper, your automobile simply isn't safe enough to use until it's been replaced or fixed. Brake calipers: how do they really work? Your car wheels are attached to circular metal discs and these spin along with the wheels. < The brake caliper is fitted over the rotating rotor disc and operates just like a clamp – depress on the brake pedal or pull the hand brake and the pads within the brake caliper are pushed out by pistons to make contact with the spinning rotor disc. The friction generated by the action of the pads on the rotor disc is what slows the vehicles. There are various types of brake caliper: What is a floating brake caliper? Floating brake calipers have piston(s) on only one side of the rotor disc but contains brake pads that make contact with with the sides of the rotor. The caliper slides back and forth on pins or bushings, ac...