Re: [AMC-List] Rusty rotors?

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hmmm, not sure I like that idea??????????
Seconds???????????
 I got a flat on the thing yesterday and had to change the tire roadside, drive it home on the spacesaver, put a new valve stem in and checked the brakes good while I had the wheel off. The rotors are toast. The outside is rusted in about a 1/3 of the way and the rear is full of pits and depressions. I think they could be turned, but it would be a stop gap repair and not worth it as there owuld be rust pits left and the next time it sat the problem would return.
  Looks like new rotors and pads for this one. I wonder what the best pad would be at grinding down the rust :] I know I've seen pads inthe past that would wear the rotors as fast as the pad wore down, That's waht this one needs! we only put about 5,000 a year on it, mostly in bad weather.
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Just spray some WD-40 or silicone on them. That will hold off the rust
> until you drive it again. Should burn right off the first couple times
> the brakes are used. Just be careful those first couple times -- should 
> be like having wet brakes. 
> 
> 
> On July 10, 2006 markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I am sitting here thinking is there anything that can safely be
> sprayed on a brake rotor to  stop it from rusting while a vehicle is in 
> non-use?
> >  I'm talking parked for a few weeks to a month, but not in long term
> storage.
> > Something that could be sprayed thru the wheels and behind to slow
> the rust down, but it would need to be self cleaning.
> >   I know, dream on, but our Jeep can sometimes sit for weeks at a
> time and the rotors have rusted in till we've lost a good third of the
> braking power and it vibrates, not from warped rotors, but from rust.
> We've been using it regularly, but the rust is heavy enough it's not
> cleaning off and I expect to be replacing rotors and pads soon.
> >   I'm also planning on swapping mid nineties Grand Cherokee rear
> discs on it at the same time, although I can't decide if that is a good 
> idea with the rust issues.
> >   Right now, the brakes just plain suck on it and I need to get it
> fixed! The reason for the rear disc swap is I've heard nothing but good 
> reports on this and I've never been impressed with XJ braking! I'm
> looking for a little more whoa!
> > Even when the brakes have been good on the XJ's I've owned they never 
> seemed up to par. I can always remembr that feeling of doom, if you
> don't hit the clutch when you hit the brake pedal as it seems the
> torque of the 4.0L is better then the clamping force of the XJ brakes!
> I'd like to be able to stall the engine in a panic stop without hitting 
> someones rear bumper to do it!
> > --
> > Mark Price
> > markprice242ATadelphia.net
> > Morgantown, WV
> 
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