Re: mail Digest for 16 Jan 2005 in hour 19:00

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Hmm... I've only seen one or two Gremlins with the solid rotors. I've only seen one Spirit with a 2.0L, and I didn't look at the brakes on it. I saw a Concord in a junkyard that had a 2.0L, but the brakes were missing on it. It's one of those parts book things! I don't have any of my books here with brake info. Apparently there was a change, maybe in 79 with the Spirit 2.0L -- that or the brakes were changed to a later style because the solid rotors were hard to find??? I know all the 2.5L fours use vented rotors, so a change is more likely. The calipers for the solid rotor brakes was the same as vented, they just had special pads. 

If someone with a late parts book would look that up, and the difference between 77-78 and 79-83 rotors it would be appreciated. I've a microfiche set, but not with me, and I don't have a reader yet! Haven't found anyone to put the fiche on CD-ROM either -- not for a price I could afford anyway.

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> 
> Frank: we (Jeff, Jeff and I) have a 79 Spirit Limited parts car with the Audi 
> 4-cylinder, but it doesn't have solid rotors--it has regular vented rotors like 
> the 6-cylinder cars. 
> 
> Jeff Reeves
> Auburn GA
> 79 Spirit GT
> 72 Javelin SST
> 69 Ambassador DPL
> 
> On January 15, 2005 Frank Swygert wrote:
> 
> > Would someone check a parts book on the rotor issue here? I know about the 
> composite pistons. Finding a caliper with composite pistons is very unlikely 
> because of the failure rate. The pistons (or whole caliper) were replaced by AMC 
> on warranty in most cases, by the owner when they started leaking in others. If 
> a car had been driven much they would have been replaced within a couple years 
> at most.
> > 
> > I believe the rotors are all the same from 77-83 except for the 77-79 four 

> cylinder models (2.0L), which used a solid rotor.