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can you see whats wrong there?

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how about now?

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i'm doing my stepmoms brakes and that darned rotor was seized to hub somethin feirce! so i just bashed at it with a BFH till it came off...whether it be in one peice or two!

Damn - never seen someone crack a rotor like that with a hammer. Must have been one heck of a BFH default_biggrin . Looks like the rotor was on its way out anyway. One way to upgrade the brakes.

Well, THERE's your problem right there! You've cracked your bloody hub bracket right off the bloomin' rotor! Blimey! What did you use -- Maxwell's Silver Hammer?

http://www.amleo.com/index/item.cgi?cmd=view&Words=3HS a hammer pretty similar to that. short handle and a big head, great for getting things of cars.

fish, the inboard side of that rotor was chewed up from the backing plate of the pad grinding against it. the other rotor was chewed up on the outboard side for the same reason, and the thickest opposing pad was 1/8th of an inch. my stepmom got concerned because she heard a grinding sound when she braked, and i told her that she had no brake pads left...but i didnt specifically say not to drive the car anywhere...which i guess i needed to say because she took off the next morning to run some errands and go see her friend!

today i have to do the rear discs, which i hope wont be so hard.

Sweet - a mini-sledge. A must have in any good toolbox default_biggrin .

What vehicle is this from - just curious. Similar thing happened to my Camry - both inboard rotor faces were scored down to the vanes inside the rotor - couldn't tell from a casual inspection, since the outboard face looked like new. But that was almost 130K on OEM rotors and second set of pads.

ford taurus, 1996 with 4 wheel disc and ABS. the rear drivers caliper is frozen in the bore and isnt doing much, the otherside works fine now that i unseized the stuck slide. i'll have to get a rebuild kit and rebuild that bad caliper at some point, if they dont sell it beforehand. oh man, it stops ALOT better now that atleast one rear brake works and the rear pads arent glazed!

btw, excessive inbroad wear means your caliper piston is sticking in the bore, usually just need to pull the caliper apart and replace the seals and clean it out good.

Bikeman982

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can you see whats wrong there?
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/huz...ff/PICT0013.jpg
how about now?
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i'm doing my stepmoms brakes and that darned rotor was seized to hub somethin feirce! so i just bashed at it with a BFH till it came off...whether it be in one peice or two!

Bad rotor - too rusted anyway - needed replacing.