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I'm about to do the brakes on 09 borrego.
I used to do all my brake jobs on my economy cheap beater cars by just compressing the calipers with a c clamp and never touching the bleeder valve or removing the master cyclinder cover. I always figured this was better then risking screwing up the bleed procedure and getting air in the lines. But I also know this forces old dirty fluid back up the line. Also I've heard that cars with ABS can require special brake job procedures.
I've got 52,000 miles on the car and the brakes are still about 95% as smooth as new when stopping. I get a tiny tiny bit of vibration under hard braking, but I'd really love to save the money and time and leave the oem rotors on there if I can. I always used to do my brakes with new aftermarket rotors and still I'd have a lot of brake vibration. I never bought oem rotors though so I got what I deserved I suppose.
Any advice on the rotors and what I should do? Do they just float on the hub and come right off when you take of the caliper. Do you need to remove an axle nut or anything?
Do then rust onto the hub sometimes? I had that problem once and had to cut them off. My cars get lots of salty new England winter exposure.
I’m going to try and go with the wagner pads from autozone if I can find a coupon for $55 as recommended in the other brake job posting.
I used to do all my brake jobs on my economy cheap beater cars by just compressing the calipers with a c clamp and never touching the bleeder valve or removing the master cyclinder cover. I always figured this was better then risking screwing up the bleed procedure and getting air in the lines. But I also know this forces old dirty fluid back up the line. Also I've heard that cars with ABS can require special brake job procedures.
I've got 52,000 miles on the car and the brakes are still about 95% as smooth as new when stopping. I get a tiny tiny bit of vibration under hard braking, but I'd really love to save the money and time and leave the oem rotors on there if I can. I always used to do my brakes with new aftermarket rotors and still I'd have a lot of brake vibration. I never bought oem rotors though so I got what I deserved I suppose.
Any advice on the rotors and what I should do? Do they just float on the hub and come right off when you take of the caliper. Do you need to remove an axle nut or anything?
Do then rust onto the hub sometimes? I had that problem once and had to cut them off. My cars get lots of salty new England winter exposure.
I’m going to try and go with the wagner pads from autozone if I can find a coupon for $55 as recommended in the other brake job posting.