{"id":4084,"date":"2018-08-13T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2018-08-13T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:00:02","slug":"overheated-brake-pads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/13\/overheated-brake-pads\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheated Brake Pads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brake pads need to be lubricated periodically, or they&#8217;ll stick in the holders. When that happens, they can start to overheat. Overheated pads don&#8217;t last very long.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4085\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018_08_13_01.jpg\" alt=\"2018_08_13_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of these pads broke as I removed it from the car, and you can also see that all of them have a crack in the middle from the heat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4086\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018_08_13_02.jpg\" alt=\"2018_08_13_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These were even worse, you can see how the friction material has turned white from the heat. Make sure you service your brakes regularly so this doesn&#8217;t happen and cost you money prematurely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brake pads need to be lubricated periodically, or they&#8217;ll stick in the holders. When that happens, they can start to overheat. Overheated pads don&#8217;t last very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[22,26],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-brakes","tag-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}