escorted Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 Hi, My daily needs new disc pads on the front. But unfortunatly the front right disc has been scored. Is it ok to clock it up in the lathe and take a lick of each side? Will this effect anything and will i need to "match machine" i.e machine the other side to the side thickness. Any help would be much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 that should be sweet provided your not taking too much off, if you can get away with 0.5mm or less you should be right. when the "mobile disc machining" dudes set up and machine disc's they dont really get to carried away with how much they take off side to side, they measure total width to make sure they haven't gone bellow the minimum thickness, apart from that, they just cut until the grooves are gone. sheepers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escorted Posted July 9, 2009 Author Share Posted July 9, 2009 Just did the first one and took .10mm off each side and it cleaned up nicely. if anyone else wants this done in the auckland area give us a yell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 It will be interesting to see how it goes back on the car. Hopefully perfectly. I am a fan of machining discs on the hub to ensure they are machined true to the actual rotating axis. Machining on the hub is of course an operation that requires specialist gear. You must have a big lathe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escorted Posted July 9, 2009 Author Share Posted July 9, 2009 It has gone well. Clocked it up within half a thou just to make sure. Lathe isnt huge but it does the job. Have done rollsets and press tooling on it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted July 9, 2009 Share Posted July 9, 2009 just use a stand and an angle grinder, jack the car up and spin the hub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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