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| seanery |
 Oct 8 2004, 12:03 PM
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So I finally got all my brake stuff together, SS lines on, new hard lines going on, calipers painted and reloaded.
Well, the damn rotor seems to be sitting to far away from the caliper mounter ears. It appears to be an 1/8th of an inch or so off. I went and measured the old rotor and new rotor using the distance from the flat area where the wheel touches to the edge of the rotor itself. See diagram. WTF is going on? These have been drilled for 5 lug, so that complicates the (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) Attached image(s) 
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seanery WTF Front Rotors aren't right Oct 8 2004, 12:03 PM
URY914 There are early and late rotors.
But you knew tha... Oct 8 2004, 12:13 PM seanery yup, and I'm guessing I have the wrong ones.
... Oct 8 2004, 12:14 PM Cap'n Krusty Ya got the wrong rotors. What year's your car... Oct 8 2004, 12:20 PM URY914 Just goes to show a guy with 9400 posts can still ... Oct 8 2004, 12:23 PM Mueller yep, what the other guy said :)
I'm sure this... Oct 8 2004, 12:25 PM seanery I'm afraid I let my vendor order the parts and... Oct 8 2004, 12:26 PM seanery can anyone tell from the vin? 4722920091
anyone k... Oct 8 2004, 12:34 PM ArtechnikA seanery I have an early set of 914 rotors drilled and pres... Oct 8 2004, 12:48 PM ArtechnikA seanery There's never one around when you need one... Oct 8 2004, 12:58 PM tat2dphreak The factory changed the strut housing, ball joint,... Oct 8 2004, 01:04 PM Mueller Sean, has the "hub centric" ring been turned down ... Oct 8 2004, 01:15 PM seanery it doesn't have one, just the mounting ring fo... Oct 8 2004, 01:21 PM seanery here it is Oct 8 2004, 01:29 PM Engman Don't feel bad I did the reverse on the LE car... Oct 8 2004, 02:04 PM rick 918-S Here's a thought....
Q-1) does anyone rememb... Oct 8 2004, 04:07 PM
seanery I've got rebuilt front calipers, new pads, fre... Oct 8 2004, 04:37 PM  |
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