As the subject says, I have a 1995 Civic DX hatchback. The previos owner of the car, my roomate, had the rear drums converted to disk breaks. I remember at some point after they were converted, I helped him change the pad on the back, but the new pads caused the brakes to seem like they were dragging all the time, you could even smell the brake dust after just driving it down the street from the house, so we just put the old pads back on never messed with them again. Well now the car is mine and the break situation has always bothered me. I have not noticed any problems with breaking, but I still want to rectify the situation. Now since it had drums then the factory proportioning valve on the car would be set to always have few pounds of pressure on the rears at all times since shoes always need pressure to hold them next to the drums. I'm not sure if the valve was replaced, and I know the one that is in the car now is not an adjustable one. Is there another honda of the same erra I can go to a junk yard and get it's proportioning valve that was desinged for 4 wheel disk and put it on and work fine, or what other options are there.
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18 years ago