• Welcome Visitor! Please take a few seconds and Register for our forum. Even if you don't want to post, you can still 'Like' and react to posts.

Time for adjustable proportioning valve?


Dragstart


U.S. Military - Veteran
Joined
Sep 2, 2025
Messages
7
Points
1
City
New Smyrna Beach
State - Country
FL - USA
Vehicle Year
1991
Vehicle
Ford Ranger
Drive
2WD
Engine
3.0 V6
Transmission
Automatic
Just got a new-to-me 1991 Supercab. It has a pulsing in the brakes, which I assumed was bad rotors. Took a look, and it just recently had a brake job done. Lines, rotors, calipers..........everything. Rotors are smooth surfaced, but still suspected they were warped from improper break-in.
I also had a drum in the rear that had a piece missing on the outer rim, so replaced that. Adjusted and bled, got good fluid when I bled it.
Afterwards, checked to see how the rears were working, and the answer was not too good. The left rear gets just warm to the touch and the right rear barely has any heat in it at all. You could fry an egg on the front rotors after the same test drive.
That sort of solved the why? of the new rotors getting warped. Previous owner just drove the truck not knowing about the bias problem and overheated the new rotors.
So, here's the question. Is this bias problem common, and is it time to install a manual proportioning valve? If any a of you have done it, what is a good valve to use and what problems and cautions are there with the install? TIA
 
Just got a new-to-me 1991 Supercab. It has a pulsing in the brakes, which I assumed was bad rotors. Took a look, and it just recently had a brake job done. Lines, rotors, calipers..........everything. Rotors are smooth surfaced, but still suspected they were warped from improper break-in.
I also had a drum in the rear that had a piece missing on the outer rim, so replaced that. Adjusted and bled, got good fluid when I bled it.
Afterwards, checked to see how the rears were working, and the answer was not too good. The left rear gets just warm to the touch and the right rear barely has any heat in it at all. You could fry an egg on the front rotors after the same test drive.
That sort of solved the why? of the new rotors getting warped. Previous owner just drove the truck not knowing about the bias problem and overheated the new rotors.
So, here's the question. Is this bias problem common, and is it time to install a manual proportioning valve? If any a of you have done it, what is a good valve to use and what problems and cautions are there with the install? TIA
BTW, new rotors are coming. NAPA is dumping their old line of rotors, part #PFR24885865. $25. There are some left in the system, they're scattered around, but you can have them ordered if you have a parts counter person willing to do it. That's the two WD rotor, but the picture on the website is wrong, it shows a 4WD.
 

Sponsored Ad


Sponsored Ad

Special Events

Events TRS Was At This Year

TRS Events

Member & Vendor Upgrades

Become a Supporting Member:

Or a Supporting Vendor:

Latest posts

Recently Featured

Want to see your truck here? Share your photos and details in the forum.

TRS Latest Video

TRS Merchandise

Follow TRS On Instagram

TRS Sponsors


Sponsored Ad


Sponsored Ad


Amazon Deals

Sponsored Ad

Back
Top