UFO Rotors changed

[iain.atkinson at tesco.net]

Funny thing is i did post asking on to do this and got little or no repsonse, had i known this before life would have been easier, i have now saved your mail for future reference.

Thanks

Iain
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> From: Dave Head <v8q at bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2005/03/05 Sat PM 07:49:24 GMT
> To: iain.atkinson at tesco.net
> Subject: Re: UFO Rotors changed
> 
> We'll say again - You DO NOT have to remove the caliper OR touch the 
> caliper carrier bolts on a ufo car if all you are doing is pads and rotors.
> 
> iain.atkinson at tesco.net wrote:
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> >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???
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> >Iain
> >  
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> >>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:
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> >>
> >>>I have just finished doing the front discs and pads, whoever designed these things needs to be shot.
> >>>      
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> >>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".
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> >>>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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