Brumby Front Brake Pads.
Brumby Front Brake Pads.
I need a set of front Brake Pads for my 90 Brumby. Bendix DB426 are priced at around $80.00 , but I see a crowd at Ipswich, Q'ld are selling Untima Brand DB426 for $38-00 on ebay, postage paid for 4 front pads. Thats nearly half the price of Bendix. Anyone out there got any comment on why they are sooooo cheap and if they are quality pads.
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I got Protex ones for the same price recently (Thirty eight $...can't write $38) I think the difference is in the composition of the friction material. Cheaper ones being standard stuff and the Bendix ones being some extra grabby compound. I got my discs machined at the same time and even with the standard pads there was a noticeable improvement in braking.
Will it ever end!?
-EA81 TWIN CARB!!!!
-L series 5 speed
-Custom paint job
-2" lift
-Full custom re-wire
-L series front end

-EA81 TWIN CARB!!!!
-L series 5 speed
-Custom paint job
-2" lift
-Full custom re-wire
-L series front end

Too long ago to remember details but I had a car where I had the discs machined, fitted new pads, they must have been a hard/crappy compound material, they chewed the discs out straight away, pulled the pads, threw them (literally) into the adjoining bush, had the discs re machined, fitted a different/new set of pads and all was great.
Moral of the story is to buy a known pad with known material or you may end up with more problems than you first thought.
Moral of the story is to buy a known pad with known material or you may end up with more problems than you first thought.
I think I have a spare set in the shed still sealed in the Bendix box if you want them, I am going EJ 5-stud and won't use them.
1989 Brumby - Shiny new red paint, stroked EJ20 phase 2 SOHC with Darton sleeves bored to EJ22, Wiseco high-compression pistons, Delta 2000 grind cams , EJ/XT6 5 stud with WRX 4/2 pots, 5-speed, 86 GTS seats and so much more.
Contact me for reproduction XT6 hubs...and EA82 rear discs.
Contact me for reproduction XT6 hubs...and EA82 rear discs.