"warped" brake disks saga

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by jim beam, Nov 14, 2006.

  1. jim beam

    jim beam Guest

    a couple of months ago, i yet again encountered the bogey about warped
    honda disks - and proved it to be simply fixed.

    had taken my civic in to have the tires rebalanced. driving home, the
    disks were "warped" and shuddering like crazy. didn't have time to deal
    with it right away, but a few weeks later, took the wheels off,
    re-torqued them, and while better, they still weren't perfect. i
    wondered if they'd not permanently been damaged with that period of use
    - they're only cheapo aftermarket disks. but i took the wheels off
    again, cleaned up the hub areas, replaced, etc. this time, a little
    better still, but again not perfect. finally, just to be pedantic, i
    reassembled having scraped off all corrosion from the mating surface
    inside the wheels as well as the disk and hub, then put antiseize on
    that inside wheel surface. replaced the wheels, torqued properly -
    disks smooth as silk!!!

    moral of the story: while i don't recommend indiscriminate use of it, a
    little antiseize between the wheel and disk hub surfaces appears to work
    wonders and may save you an expensive disk skimming or replacing
    exercise. make sure all corrosion is scraped off first.
     
    jim beam, Nov 14, 2006
    #1
  2. Interesting! What did you use to remove the corrosion?

    Mike
     
    Michael Pardee, Nov 14, 2006
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  3. jim beam

    jim beam Guest

    just used a blade. it doesn't need to be surgical, just flat without
    the lumpy flaky bits of rust.
     
    jim beam, Nov 15, 2006
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