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Re: Brake Job
Posted by Stephen Goldberger (more from Stephen Goldberger) on Tue, 7 Jan 2003 05:12:53
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00

should the rotors be cut or not?

If the rotors are flat and the grooving is not unusually severe, there is
no need to resurface them.

Many people are of the opinion that one needs to roughen the surface to
'bed in' the pads, analogous to honing a cylinder bore to bed in
rings. But the rings in their bore are essentially 'steel on steel' (well,
chrome on cast iron), while the brake pads are - well- brake pads on
iron. No comparison. Consider - the rotor gets glazed in the first 100
miles, and then for the next 40,000 or 60,000 miles the pad wears against
that glazed rotor just fine.

Stephen Goldberger, Editor and Publisher
NINES, the magazine of the SAAB Club of North America
vist our web site at http://www.saabclub.com


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