A comprehensive new electronic catalog featuring the expanded Abex line of original equipment-quality replacement air disc brake pads for commercial vehicles is now available from Federal-Mogul. The ...

Many vehicle owners know about brake pads and their importance, but what about the brake calipers? Here's what they do and ...

More than ever, high-performance enthusiasts want well-rounded performance cars. Raw, straight-line acceleration in isolation is no longer adequate, if it ever was. In recent months, HOT ROD has ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake has commenced production of its air disc brakes at the company’s Kentucky plant making it the first truck brake manufacturer to mass produce disc brakes ...

The disc brake has become an almost ubiquitous component of the modern car. There's a good reason for that... A disc brake is an assembly that provides stopping power by clamping brake pads against a ...

Driving a vintage Mopar in bumper-to-bumper traffic packed with modern vehicles can quickly point out the inadequacies of our vintage Detroit iron. In most cases, today's cars can out accelerate, pull ...

We talked about the wide world of disc brakes in our previous look at brake systems. Now let’s jump into the dark arts of drum brakes. Because there are generally more moving parts with a drum brake ...

Long before brands like Porsche, Mercedes, and Cadillac made it trendy to dress up your disc brake parts so they'd display like jewelry from behind the car's spinning wheels, drum brakes were the norm ...

A drum brake, as the name suggests, is a type of braking device that generates stopping power by pushing a friction material into contact with a rotating drum. Unlike a disc brake assembly, which ...

New braking rules require shorter panic stops, but the resulting stronger brakes will have otehr benefits like increased fade resistance on long downgrades. Emerging from truck factories in the U.S.