Here is what happened last weekend:
My mechanic and I drove my GT40 last weekend and on exiting the highway, I found that I had no brakes, so I started pumping and got about one inch of brake pedal. I turned around and entered the highway and found that I had full brake pedal. But after a few minutes saw white smoke billowing out of the right front wheel well and the car was pulling to the right. Once I got back home, I took off the Borrani wheel and saw that the brake caliper pistons (2) were tight up against the rotor. After cooling down the very hot rotor, My mechanic tried removing the wheel drive pins/studs (6) with allen (hex) wrench 'females', holding on the splined hub. The first one snapped off even with the rotor. And the 2nd and the third. Of course I was upset. At the time we did not see the capture/locking nuts on the back of the rotor, plus there was a type of "lock-tite? on the thread. The mechanic went home and I hired a "front-end" auto mechanic. He saw a two to three inch metal cap secured by a 2+ inch cir=cliip on the back of the rotor. After two hours of trying to remove the Cir=Clip, he finally was successful in removing the metal cap and Cir-Clip. But the next hurdle was a 2 inch nut and tab-washer (a 2 inch washer with two tabs extending from the washer). With a two inch+ open-end wrench he removed the nut and then the large washer. To our shock we saw that the 3/8 inch UNF drive pins/studs were retained by nuts that look like little "caps", fastened to the drive pins/studs on the back of the rotor.
I am having the rotor ever so slight "turned". I use silicone brake fluid.
I have no idea why the above happened. The other wheel (left side) did not share the same problem as the right side, so that in my mind rules out a bad Master Cyl. The rubber brake hoses are over 20 years old (I will replace them IF you help me find the same design ones-see photo below. The caliper (two) pistons are clean and unscratched. I replaced the square rubber seals in the cylinders' walls of the caliper (the old ones appeared clean and normal).
Please look (in following email) at the rubber dust covers with retaining coil-springs, located at the ball joints. My dust covers have ruptured/rotted and need replacements. Can you help me find those rubber dust/dirt covers with small coiled retaining springs-see photos on next emails.
My mechanic and I drove my GT40 last weekend and on exiting the highway, I found that I had no brakes, so I started pumping and got about one inch of brake pedal. I turned around and entered the highway and found that I had full brake pedal. But after a few minutes saw white smoke billowing out of the right front wheel well and the car was pulling to the right. Once I got back home, I took off the Borrani wheel and saw that the brake caliper pistons (2) were tight up against the rotor. After cooling down the very hot rotor, My mechanic tried removing the wheel drive pins/studs (6) with allen (hex) wrench 'females', holding on the splined hub. The first one snapped off even with the rotor. And the 2nd and the third. Of course I was upset. At the time we did not see the capture/locking nuts on the back of the rotor, plus there was a type of "lock-tite? on the thread. The mechanic went home and I hired a "front-end" auto mechanic. He saw a two to three inch metal cap secured by a 2+ inch cir=cliip on the back of the rotor. After two hours of trying to remove the Cir=Clip, he finally was successful in removing the metal cap and Cir-Clip. But the next hurdle was a 2 inch nut and tab-washer (a 2 inch washer with two tabs extending from the washer). With a two inch+ open-end wrench he removed the nut and then the large washer. To our shock we saw that the 3/8 inch UNF drive pins/studs were retained by nuts that look like little "caps", fastened to the drive pins/studs on the back of the rotor.
I am having the rotor ever so slight "turned". I use silicone brake fluid.
I have no idea why the above happened. The other wheel (left side) did not share the same problem as the right side, so that in my mind rules out a bad Master Cyl. The rubber brake hoses are over 20 years old (I will replace them IF you help me find the same design ones-see photo below. The caliper (two) pistons are clean and unscratched. I replaced the square rubber seals in the cylinders' walls of the caliper (the old ones appeared clean and normal).
Please look (in following email) at the rubber dust covers with retaining coil-springs, located at the ball joints. My dust covers have ruptured/rotted and need replacements. Can you help me find those rubber dust/dirt covers with small coiled retaining springs-see photos on next emails.