Re: Installing Rotor to Hub?

["Steven Stegmann" <s_stegmann@domain.elided>]

Scouters,

When I put my Scout back in service it had been sitting over a year.

Not being one to turn a rotor or drum that is still round, I sanded off 
the rust from the rotors with emery cloth and put them back in service.  
they are working great.  They stop smooth and straight, no pulsation.

I never turn anything unless it is out of round.  I've even used some 
drums with pretty serious grooves from rivits.  Never made any 
difference in performance that I could tell.  The shoes/pads just wore 
to accomodate the groves.

When you assemble rotors to hubs you might want to measure the runout of 
the hubs and then put on the rotors, and measure total runout.  If not 
acceptable, put the rotors on in a different position,  you might find 
one to eliminate the runout.  Use some smaller nuts & bolts to assemble 
the rotors to the hubs to check the runout.

When you find the best position, assemble with the regular studs.  If 
this asembly seriously changes the runout you'll have to get them 
turned.  But I would hope that the assembly process would not warp the 
rotors.  This would make me think the assembly process was not done 
correctly.

Steve

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