disk rotors
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disk rotors
On both my 00 X and my 99 Ranger the rotors are in need of cutting. You step on the brakes and the trucks shakes. What causes this. Is it just wear or could it be from stopping short all the time?
Thanks for the help.
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Material transfer.
When stopping at a light after a long stop we usually keep our foot on the brake, right? Think about it, afer doing that a few hundred times tiny parts of the brake pad (the dust) begin to adhere themselves to the rotor due to the heat and the pressure. Get enough of this and you'll develop high spots on the rotor.
Look at how soft the brake pad material is today. It is clearly evident by all the black front wheels on vehicles today.
Prevent it by breaking in your new pads correctly through repeated heat cycles, putting your truck in park when coming to a rest after a long stop and keeping the wheel/brakes clean.
The other reason could be a rotor warpage. The rotors that get too hot will get distorted. Although it is a common reason people give, it is rather hard to get rotors hot enough in normal street driving to cause them to warp.
So, get yours resurfaced and be easy when bedding in the pads to them.
When stopping at a light after a long stop we usually keep our foot on the brake, right? Think about it, afer doing that a few hundred times tiny parts of the brake pad (the dust) begin to adhere themselves to the rotor due to the heat and the pressure. Get enough of this and you'll develop high spots on the rotor.
Look at how soft the brake pad material is today. It is clearly evident by all the black front wheels on vehicles today.
Prevent it by breaking in your new pads correctly through repeated heat cycles, putting your truck in park when coming to a rest after a long stop and keeping the wheel/brakes clean.
The other reason could be a rotor warpage. The rotors that get too hot will get distorted. Although it is a common reason people give, it is rather hard to get rotors hot enough in normal street driving to cause them to warp.
So, get yours resurfaced and be easy when bedding in the pads to them.
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Thanks for the help.
I was going to blame my wife. She was using the Ranger for a good while and the roters needed turing. Now for the past year she has had the X and 6 months ago the X needs turing as well. She has a bad habit of stoping at the very last second. I drove the Ranger for 4 years before the pads needed to be changed and they cut the roters then. She get's it shortly after that and they need to be cut again. hahaha
Again as usual Thanks for the help Monsta
I was going to blame my wife. She was using the Ranger for a good while and the roters needed turing. Now for the past year she has had the X and 6 months ago the X needs turing as well. She has a bad habit of stoping at the very last second. I drove the Ranger for 4 years before the pads needed to be changed and they cut the roters then. She get's it shortly after that and they need to be cut again. hahaha
Again as usual Thanks for the help Monsta
