| Just imagine speeding down the highway. Just | | | | the power brake booster, and the anti-lock |
| imagine the sun on your face and the wind on | | | | system. |
| your hair. Just imagine the feeling of being one | | | | If a person steps on the Rover brake pedal what |
| with your car and the road as well. Feels great, | | | | actually happens is that he is actually pushing |
| doesn't it? This time, imagine trying to slow down | | | | against the plunger found in the master cylinder. |
| your descent however finding out that your | | | | By doing such action, it forces the hydraulic oil or |
| Rover brakes do not work. Now that would be a | | | | brake fluid to go through a series of tubes and |
| great misfortune. | | | | hoses to the braking unit at each wheel. The |
| An automobile's brake system has been | | | | concept behind this is that hydraulic fluid, or any |
| continually refined and redefined for over a | | | | other kind of fluid, cannot be compressed. By |
| century. Automobiles without brakes would not a | | | | pushing the fluid through the pipe, this produces |
| great thing for drivers and passengers would be | | | | the same action and reaction of like pushing a |
| very much prone to accidents, collisions, and | | | | steel bar through a pipe. |
| crashes. The modern automotive brakes system | | | | However, the main difference between the |
| has now become extremely independent, | | | | hydraulic fluid and a steel bar is that the hydraulic |
| dependable, indispensable, and very efficient. All | | | | fluid has the capacity to be directed through |
| these are due to the experiences of drivers and | | | | many twists and turns on its way to its |
| innovations of automobile experts. | | | | destination while a steel bar has no capacity to do |
| The Rover brake system of an automobile | | | | so. Upon going through its own maze, it arrives |
| generally consists of disk brakes. They are | | | | back to its original location and state so that it |
| mounted and installed in the front and rear ends | | | | could be used once again. What is essential, |
| of the automobile. The disk brakes, or also known | | | | though, is to keep the liquid free from air bubbles. |
| as drum brakes, installed in the rear is connected | | | | If there are air bubbles in the liquid this actually |
| by a system of tubes and hoses. These then link | | | | slows down and reduces the vehicle's braking |
| the Rover brake at each wheel and connect them | | | | system's efficiency. If this actually happens, the |
| to the master cylinder. If a person looks more | | | | entire braking system must undergo a bleeding |
| closely into an automobile's brake system, he | | | | where the air can be removed. Each wheel |
| would be able to discover that there are other | | | | cylinder and caliper has "bleeder screws" that |
| systems that are connected to this system. | | | | facilitate the release of any air in the fluid. |
| These other systems include the parking brakes, | | | | |