Brakes have been weird in the land cruiser for a long time, we've replaced loss of components and currently there is an oem master and aftermarket booster that are both relatively new. Normal braking situations are fine but If you ask it to stop faster it won't. Feels Kind of like I have no boost as the pedal feels hard and stopping distances are huge. It has gotten worse over time as well. Finally we took it in to mark Miller Toyota, who says that my front wheel bearings are so loose that they can't do more breaking diagnostics till they take care of it.
At first I was about to go off on him for trying to scam me, but I think I can make sense of now. He says "there is less contact area because they want to toe out". The way I see it is that the momentum of the car pushing forward and the wheels wanting to stay put Creates a load that is normally carried by the bearings in order to keep the wheels pointed straight. But if the bearings have play then there's nothing to keep the wheels straight and they will start to toe out until they get stopped by the brake pads against the rotor. The rotor is parallel with the rims, whereas the pads are still pointed straight, making an "N" If you are looking down from the top.
It certainly isn't anything I would have suspected, but it actually does make sense to me. I'm just a little leery because I've never heard of that before, what about anybody on here?
At first I was about to go off on him for trying to scam me, but I think I can make sense of now. He says "there is less contact area because they want to toe out". The way I see it is that the momentum of the car pushing forward and the wheels wanting to stay put Creates a load that is normally carried by the bearings in order to keep the wheels pointed straight. But if the bearings have play then there's nothing to keep the wheels straight and they will start to toe out until they get stopped by the brake pads against the rotor. The rotor is parallel with the rims, whereas the pads are still pointed straight, making an "N" If you are looking down from the top.
It certainly isn't anything I would have suspected, but it actually does make sense to me. I'm just a little leery because I've never heard of that before, what about anybody on here?