Hi Toby,
Me, CalSpeed, and Dave Gardin had a great time blasting down the central
valley of California to Doheny, over 500 miles. This was a great trip, as
all of us were evenly matched with low-windshield U-20's. On much of I-5
we were the only cars, and might admit to pushing our roadsters a bit
hard. Somewhere along the way, the seal failed and the car was pulling
hard right. The emergency hand brake got me through the rush hour
stop-n-crawl of L.A., and I decided to keep going until we could hit CDM.
At Les' shop, CalSpeed and I bled the brakes and pulled the wheels. Les
and Marc took a look at the screwed up rotor and pads. Marc recommended
against trying to salvage the rotor, and I agreed with him. Once the
metal gets impregnated with contamination on one side, it's never the
same as the other side of the car. Plus it being old and scratched up to
begin with. Honestly, it took about 1 second of decision-making about
buying slotted cross-drilled rotors, as I've wanted them for some time
now! When I got home, "hey honey, I HAD to buy these because the old ones
broke!".
Fred
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>Subject: Re: Front wheel seal removal
>Author: Toby B <toby@wolfenet.com>
>Date: 11/2/99 8:28 PM
>
>Hee hee,
>Yes, Fred, you can pry the seal out from behind, or you can drift out
>the bearing from the front! Amazingly, if you're gentle, you CAN beat
>on a bearing. Personally, I use a wide-bladed screwdriver, get it in
>behind the seal, and twist to pry the old seal out- often, they're
>pretty stuck in there. If you find that the bearing is bad, they're not
>very expensive- a LOT cheaper than a new spindle.
>But how did the grease destroy your ROTOR? The pad, I can see, but the
>grease shouldn't have harmed the rotor??? Or did the pad come apart?
>Toby
>
>Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got new rotors and seals ready to go into the front wheels. One of
>the > existing seals blew grease all over my brakes, destroying the rotor
>disc
>> and brake pads so my '66 pulls to the side when stopping.
>> So how do I pop those old seals out from behind the inner bearings,
>without > damaging the bearings? If the bearings are in good shape, I'd
>rather not
>> have to buy new ones. Do I pry the seal out from the back side of the
>> rotor, or do I push it out from inside the front hub with a tool of some
>> kind?
>>
>> Fred - So.SF
>> SF BADROC
>> '66 2000
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