2002 wrx. which port is front brakes and which port is rears? having a hard time with my googles right now and can't find the answer.
2002 wrx. which port is front brakes and which port is rears? having a hard time with my googles right now and can't find the answer.
The primary circuit (the one closest to firewall) is for the right front and left rear. The secondary circuit(the front one) is for left front and right rear. This is for post 97/98ish subarus with the rectangular fluid reservoir and not the old big round reservoir. It should also be labeled on the abs block under the air intake scoop snorkus thing.
what is the reasoning? to not lose braking on one whole axle due to AWD still pushing the vehicle forward?
reason being, my car was hacked. like abs stuff gone, and the rear port is plumbed to the LF, front one plumbed to RF, rears unhooked. zero rear brakes plus rwd car = car pushes right past the fronts
is there any reason not to be able to run the fronts off one port teed to the wheels and the rears off the other port teed in the same way, like any other vehicle, if the car is no longer AWD? i have a traditional gm disc/disc combination valve if that would assist the process.
It's a safety design thing not really an awd thing. "Dual diagonal braking" or some such thing. That way in case braking is lost in one of the circuits you still have the other circuit to stop both the front AND the rear at the same time.
patgizz wrote: like any other vehicle,
Like any other quite old vehicle. Its been quite a while that things have been diagonally split- For example, all Neons are diagonal.
Bear in mind my entire fleet of vehicles are rear wheel drive general motors no newer than 1995 except my avalanche and the wrx, no idea things were done diagonally these days. I always made it home with front/rear split and popped brake lines on either.
Diagonal brakes started back in the sixties on US cars at least. Mostly a fwd thing but definitely not new.
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