Vibration Causes Squeaky Brakes

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 19

Vibration Causes Squeaky Brakes

CQUEAKY brakes, being due very largely to vibration, it is a good plan to consider the possibility that the brake bands and drums may oe too light, if the car is troubled with this sort of annoyance., It has been found that heavy bands and drums are less noisy, but few car owners have discovered this.

Though it is too much of a job to consider using heavier parts ( on the car, one way to get around the difficulty is by using a thicker brake lining. A 3-16 lining on a light band, for instance, will admit •of less squeaking than one' of 5-32 inch thickness. Anything that sets up vibration m a brake is amplified into sound by the bands and drums, just as the violin obtains its tones by the vibration of its strings. Heavier linings help to destroy this amplifying action and being relatively inexpensive furnish a logical solution to the» problem of squeaky motoring.