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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Moore, Ok
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Preventing rusty rotors
Anyone got any tips or ideas to keep surface rust from forming on rotors. It will probably be another year or two before I get my 72 on the road and was wondering if there was anything I could put on the rotors that wouldn't contaminate the brake pads or interfere with them bedding properly.......Thanks Stroker
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Pull the pads off (and keep them off) and apply a light coat of grease to front and back surfaces. Or maybe a thin coat of spray paint? It'd probably just rub off when you drive it the first time, or you could clean it off with laquer thinner. Just a couple ideas.
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Help! I'm in an office park with its own network of freeways!
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Grease or WD40 would work just fine. But you must clean it off before installing the rotors. Most pads will suck the oil right off the rotor as you cruise down the road. Then you're stuck with greasy pads that might not do their job when you really need them too.
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2 can quickly turn to 10... I would just buy the high temp rotor paint from Eastwood Co. and paint the whole thing. Then when everything else is done, take 'em to the parts store and have them lightly skimmed with the cutter. That way everything that might rust gets painted including the vent fins.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: over yonder
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I am in the same boat....at least a year before back on the road and my brake rotors (all 4 - front & rear
![]() As for the "hub" area and the area around the outside circumference of the rotor, I used some bomb can black until i can paint with body color. Hope this helps... |
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Location: Moore, Ok
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Thanks for the ideas. I've done the painting of all but the friction area with some high temp paint. I think I'll just leave out the pads and protect with some sort of lube. Now if I can straighted out the problem with the spindle nut I'll at least beable to roll it around and set the engine and tranny in place. Thanks again.....Stroker
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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You could get some crap rotors from the bone yard, and keep your nice one aside.
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