1980 Rear rotor removal

[Patrick H.]

Re: JOE are U there? HELP me out

"Actually, my main problem in going out there is that I know that he will expect that my car will have been long-completed by now."

Actually a situation that is relatively easy to remedy.

And we ALL expected your car to be completed by now.

Patrick

[mike cobine]

Re: JOE are U there? HELP me out

I would have to go to the storage to look, and at this time of night, I'd be divorced for doing such, but based on the assumption that the extra machining step was to cut the emergency brake shoes surface, then the Rears could be used on the Front but not vice versa. There would be no need for that surfce on the front, but it would not hurt anything, however, it would be necessary on the rear and would hurt something if missing.

Second would be the e-brake adjusting holes. While they are not necessary to make the car run on a personal or individual basis, no company would sell you rotors this way.

As to the Chinese-made parts having the rivet holes and counterbores, it is probably because they make them without any idea what they are for, simply duplicating the original.

[Joe L.]

Re: JOE are U there? HELP me out

Patrick-----

Yes, but I fear that Ken would be MUCH "harder on me" if he found out the car was not finished yet. When I do take it out there and show it to him, I don't have to tell him WHEN I finished it.

[Joe L.]

Re: JOE are U there? HELP me out

Mike-----

My recollection is that it's something other than the finish machining for the parking brake drum. It just seems to me that Ken said that there was one other machining cut made on one or the other. I recall that I said to him that I thought the only difference was the parking brake drum machining and the adjustment holes. Then, he explained that it was one thing more than that.