Re: [AMC-List] Rusty rotors?

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Just make sure they are metallic pads then. Those should keep them ground down!

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: 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.
> --
> Mark Price
> markprice242ATadelphia.net
> Morgantown, WV
> 
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