critcher > wrote:

>> That's the problem with the internet - the blind leading the blind!
> so you are still on about tyres and nuts, jesus who do you work for ?
> kwikfit !!!!

Last night I did all six brake sets (12 pads/shoes) on a German car:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/fronts.jpg

The fronts mic'd greater than 0.800 inches so I kept the rotors.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/front_rotors.jpg

But the rears were below 0.7200 inches & they were edge lipped:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/resurface.jpg

You never know if a rotor will be below thickness specification until you
measure it, so since I didn't have a new set of rotors, I decided to try
the redneck methods of truing them up, just for the learning experience.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/drums.jpg

One nice thing about doing all your own mechanical work on a car is you
find stuff like this busted brake line, which you won't know if a mechanic
will find because they don't spend the time to look around that you might.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/22/brakeline.jpg

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PS: I made a mess of the rotor resurfacing project, but I'm gonna replace
the rotors anyway since they were 0.695 inches in diameter, so it was just
for the fun vote for American ingenuity that I even tried it.