UFO Rotors changed

[Jim Haseltine]

Give it 10 years and _then_ see how you feel.

Jim Haseltine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <iain.atkinson at tesco.net>
To: <brett at cloud9.net>
Cc: "Robert Myers" <Bob at chips-ur-s.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Re: UFO Rotors changed


>I cleaned the faces of the rotors before installation very thoroughly, i 
>have been into town and back 10 mile round trip or so and i start to feel 
>the difference now in the brakes so i reckon by the time i have done a 
>couple of hundred miles they should be fully bedded in. My prob was with 
>frozen bolts holding the caliper carrier on (i was doing rotors and pads). 
>And i ache now is 38yrs old too old to be doing this stuff in the middle of 
>winter???
>
> Iain
>>
>> From: Brett Dikeman <quattro at frank.mercea.net>
>> Date: 2005/03/05 Sat PM 05:34:45 GMT
>> To: iain.atkinson at tesco.net
>> CC: Robert Myers <Bob at chips-ur-s.com>,  quattro at audifans.com
>> Subject: Re: UFO Rotors changed
>>
>> iain.atkinson at tesco.net wrote:
>> > I have just finished doing the front discs and pads, whoever designed 
>> > these things needs to be shot.
>>
>> All you need is a torx driver and very large channel locks.  Use the
>> channel locks between the tab of the inboard pad and the back of the
>> caliper to squeeze the piston back in maybe a quarter to half inch and
>> remove the pad.  Undo the torx set screw, pull the back side of the
>> rotor out, and move the whole thing forward.  It doesn't get much
>> easier, aside from the monobloc calipers where it's "pull a pin, pull
>> the pads".
>>
>> > Been for a run to bed them in, got quite hot when i stopped for a look, 
>> > they were smoking actaully so drove around to cool em off
>>
>> Smoking probably from the WD40, or remnants of the gum which is supposed
>> to be removed before installation (probably in the vanes).
>>
>> Brett
>>
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