UFO Rotors changed

[Dave Head]

Yup - takes 15 minutes per side...

George Tur wrote:

>On Saturday 05 March 2005 10:32 am, iain.atkinson at tesco.net wrote:
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>>I have just finished doing the front discs and pads, whoever designed these
>>things needs to be shot. What a crazy design, nearside came apart ok ish
>>then the drivers side all 3 of the caliper mounting bolts were seized, got
>>2 out with a huge effort, the bottom one and most difficult to get to
>>refused to budge, a neighbour lent me a compressor and air ratchet that
>>just about got it moving after that i could get the longest breaker bar i
>>have got and wound out it with lots wd40.
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>Huh? Why did you have to remove the caliper on a UFO rotor to change the pads? 
>The way it's designed you just have to remove the rotor, there's one screw to 
>hold it on, at least there is in the V8 installation, and then you can 
>replace the pads in the caliper. No need to remove the caliper at all; that's 
>the way I did it on my V8. 
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>George Tur
>91 V8
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