By William Turner (Wturner) on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 03:29 pm: Edit

I have been told that it is proper to get your rotors machined every time you do a brake job. Is that really the case, if not how do you tell when it is appropriate?

Thanks

By Kyle on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 03:34 pm: Edit

No , dont cut em each time. Cut em when they arent true any longer...


Kyle

By William Turner (Wturner) on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 03:41 pm: Edit

How do you tell if they are true??

By Kyle on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 03:42 pm: Edit

The steering will shake when you apply the brakes... its fairly obvious..

Kyle

By William Turner (Wturner) on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 03:46 pm: Edit

OK, so I am all good, well except for one.

The left rear is grinding metal to metal, the surface has been eaten up. I obviously have to cut that one, so do I have to cut the other side too??

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 04:02 pm: Edit

Bill, FYI....

Disco rotors don't have a lot of extra "meat" on 'em....

if you've got any real miles on 'em at all, it'll probably end up being such that it'll take them past allowable tolerances to turn them, so you'll probably be looking at a new rotor.

And, if you're putting on a new rotor on the left rear, better put a new one on the right rear, too...

IMHO, YMMV....

-L

By Jon Williams (Jonw) on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 04:03 pm: Edit

That one will probably have to be replaced. Rover rotors don't have much tolerance (if any) to be machined.

By Jon Williams (Jonw) on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 04:06 pm: Edit

...and I think Leslie posted at the same time I did. Sorry for the duplicate messages

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 04:22 pm: Edit

JonW, usually it's BillB or Ron posting simultaneously with me..... and now you, too!



-L