After you change your brake pads, do you need to bleed the brakes? The answer's less straightforward than you may think. Here ...

Your owner's manual can tell you what kind (s) of brakes you have on your vehicle, in case you don't already know, but seeing for yourself is more fun. The Brake Master Cylinder Under the hood of ...

ZF stuffed its dry brake-by-wire system into a Cadillac Lyriq mule and offered laps around a closed course. The ZF dry brake-by-wire system replaces traditional hydraulic brakes with electric ...

The parking function varies greatly among hydraulic brake systems. Many light-duty vehicles with rear drum brakes use a passenger-car type lever-and-cable setup.

Troubleshooting hydraulic brake problems is generally pretty simple: You find the leak, replace the part and bleed the system. Sometimes, you don’t see a leak, but that’s never stopped me from ...

Conventional hydraulic brakes use fluid, and applies it to all four wheels evenly when the brake pedal is pressed. This type of system requires a master cylinder and a series of brake lines routed ...

Since the advent of the hydraulic brake system, “bleeding” the system is a necessity. We show you how to properly bench bleed a master cylider, the right way.

The system—similar to a car's hydraulic braking system—uses a hydraulic master cylinder to create line pressure plumbed (usually) to an internal hydraulic release bearing (HRB) positioned on ...

Type #1: Disc brakes Disc brakes are the most common and most preferred type of car brakes nowadays, and they’re what you’ll find on most modern cars. This brake system is composed of rotors ...

It is designed to keep the car in place when parking. For more than 50 years, cars have had dual-hydraulic brake systems, and the chance of completely losing the entire braking system is very ...

Hydroboost power-brake units can be sourced a variety of places, including Power Brake Service [www.powerbrakesonline.com, (800) 504-1060] and Hydratech Braking Systems [www.hydratechbraking.com ...