Disc Machining

[Cuppa]

Fair call for objective measurement with caliper bolts and is an improvement on my subjective size 10 lbf-ft. Personally, I rather preload wheel bearings by feel.

Your trip must be full of pleasures, my vegies would not survive my absence, maybe one day.

With wheel bearings I do the same. I carry a degree of vegie guilt ...... after 20+ years of nurturing a vegie garden to now eating supermarket produce I know which I prefer ..... but life is full of compromises eh?

[Cuppa]

I am also coming round to buying some cheaper pads & seeing how they go if I need to. Thinking maybe Bendix 'Heavy Duty'.

[Bidja]

I run Bendix HD on rear and use some FERODO (no longer available) on front had on shelf for yrs with slotted rotors. Check this guy out:

http://www.ebaystores.com.au/rolan

Have been weeding in our patch 30yrs now but short growing season. You would know what cold harsh environments do for the all yr round supply(chem free).

[Cuppa]

I run Bendix HD on rear and use some FERODO (no longer available) on front had on shelf for yrs with slotted rotors. Check this guy out:

http://www.ebaystores.com.au/rolan

Have been weeding in our patch 30yrs now but short growing season. You would know what cold harsh environments do for the all yr round supply(chem free).

Ta will have a look.
Yup. Deep Freezer got extensive use & a tunnel hothouse helped for some things too. What elevation are you at? We were just above the snow line at 600 metres.

[Bidja]

Ta will have a look.
Yup. Deep Freezer got extensive use & a tunnel hothouse helped for some things too. What elevation are you at? We were just above the snow line at 600 metres.

We off-grid, do run freezer for reduced tomato sauces, pesto, soups, dried stuff. Have 400 sq m undercover poly tunnels(needs re covering) and outside beds.

Southern tablelands NSW @ 620m, only occasionally get snow, winter average -4 to 15 deg C (does go down -9 often in depth of winter) and 30-40 deg C odd thru summer (get the extremes but generally clear sunny days(good solar) and average 600mm rain when it does. Dams still way down for last 3-4 yrs and have to rely on bore for irrigation now. Snows at around 1000m regularly thru season(snowy mnts).

[Avo]

Cuppa ring racebrakessydney they have an ebay store and easy to talk to and deal with over the phone,5hey actually prefer it because 5hen people get what they need.i bought slotted dba discs for the front and pads all round 600 posted to sth wst cnr wa,made a huge difference in braking and happy...

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[Cuppa]

Ok, discs & pads examined & decision made.

All pads 5mm thickness left & evenly worn. Rotors are in surprisingly excellent shape, no ridges or scoring (fingernail test). Clearly someone did a good job when fitting them (despite working in a cold damp open fronted shed on a dirt floor covered in gravel& goat sh*t).

Have consulted with my 'brake expert' (Thanks mate) & on the basis that the wear on the pads equates to an average rate of wear of 1mm per 4,700kms, giving me hopefully at least 9000kms before I reach the advised minimum thickness of 3mm (although EBC say 2mm) I will wait until we are over east before changing anything. If they do wear down sooner than expected I'll throw the EBC Yellowstuff pads I have with us in, something I feel much better about doing after seeing how good the rotor condition is.

Thanks for the input everyone.