Question regarding UFO brakes

[Mike Miller]

Bernie - true, but that is usually a piece of cake. 1 screw and it falls off as I recall. Takes longer to jack up the car and remove the wheel than it does to change pads. BTDT on my original UFO equipped 200q a couple times. The last 2 200's have had that damn reduced braking G60's "upgrade". Still have the 1st car as a parts car with UFO rotors with under 10k on them. 1st set of rotors lasted over 100k.

mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bernie Benz 
To: Mike Miller 
Cc: 200q20V mailing list 
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Question regarding UFO brakes


Mike,
Note the subject!  One must remove the rotor to replace the outer  
pad. Doing so is the point of the current discussion.

Bernie


On Jul 9, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> I've always just opened the bleeder valve, pushed the piston back  
> all the
> way and popped in the new pad. Takes longer to jack the car up and  
> get the
> wheel off than to change a pad.
>
> mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben Swann
> To: krufino at alumni.stevens-tech.edu
> Cc: 200q20v at audifans.com
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 6:04 PM
> Subject: Question regarding UFO brakes
>
>
> Brute force and a bit of conniving with a hammer/crowbar - I have  
> seen some
> instructions showing to cut the pad edge down at an angle to make  
> assembly
> disassembly easier.  You'll simply have to remove some pad  
> material.  Also
> making sure the calipers are fully retracted may help.
>
>
>
> My recall is everytime I've done this job I run into this problem,  
> so you
> are
> not alone.
>
>
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> [Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:47:24 -0400
>
> From: Kevin Rufino <krufino at alumni.stevens-tech.edu>
>
> Subject: Question regarding UFO brakes
>
> To: 200q20v at audifans.com
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> This may be a dumb question, but is there any trick to removing the  
> UFO
> rotors?  This is the first UFO brake job for me.  I got the inboard  
> pad off
> with little trouble, then removed to screw from the rotor; but  
> could not get
> the rotor off.  Are you just supposed to be able to pull the rotor  
> off?  I
> haven't had a chance to pick up a Bentley, so I was following the  
> brake
> section from www.quattro123.com. It really felt like I was missing  
> a step.
> No
> matter how much I wiggled and pulled, the rotor did not seem to  
> want to
> clear
> the lip of the hub.  It also did not help that I was attempting  
> this from
> the
> not really level parking lot of my apartment complex.  If anyone  
> would shed
> some light on this, I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.
>
>
>
> Kevin]
>
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