RE: Ball Joints & rotors

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@dodgetrucks.org)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 10:58:06 EDT


Front pads running 90K miles...ain't gonna happen. Rears...possible.

You normally check the runout and wear pattern on the rotors, but
yes...cleaning up the rotor surface on both sides is required when
installing new pads. (Not to forget properly burnishing them in on the
first test drive.)

- Bernd

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric [mailto:huffy340@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:41 AM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: Ball Joints & rotors

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:51:23 -0500 Bernd D. Ratsch wrote:

> Not cleaning up the
> rotors at each brake pad change creates more issues with the braking
> system than it's worth.

Is it true they need to be turned on both sides at the same time?
The FSM says so, and when i called around, none of the regular stores had a
lathe that would do it.

As it turned out, the pads didn't wear out until about 90,000 miles, and the
rotor was close enough to the minimum that i just had the rotors replaced at
the same time.

eric



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