Brake rotor issues

[WyrreJ]

I am detecting a pattern - 3 for 3 bad rotors in NY. Maybe it is road salt or something that does them in.

[V-Twin hiCROSS]

My rear rotors "dissolved" as well, at aorund 50K miles. We do get road salt laid here in Missouri. I replaced them with Napa rotors, so far so good. I am considering doing the braided metal brake lines to stiffen up the pedal feel. How much work is it?

[driver3]

Mine were all Ohio miles.. there's enough salt there to eat any car after a while.

I'd like to know about the brake lines as well

[Ldub]

The s/s braid lines aren't too bad of a project, I just did mine last weekend.
Kinda messy,have lots of paper towels/ shop rags on hand. Also, do yourself a favor & get a flare nut wrench (10 or 11mm, can't remember which),a qt. of DOT3 brake fluid, a drain pan & away you go.
Also, I remember seeing a write up here about the same topic, maybe try searching brakeline.
Rotsa Ruck, Ldub

[psychos2]

yes but the salt did not eat the rotors off any other car i have had in ny. i would say garbage rotors and salt = dissolved rotors. shawn

[MarkChai]

I replaced all my front brake components on the 85 Cruiser FJ60, but the damn rotors were seized to the freewheel hub housing.

I took them to Brake masters because I couldn't get them apart, no matter how much I banged and pried. Took them 45 minutes to get 'em apart, too.

Anyway, as the tech put the new rotors on the hub for me, we chatted for a while, and his opinion was the ceramic pads are only necessary on the 3 cars in the US market that come with them. They were all high end $80-$90K+++ luxury cars.

Ceramic pads are harder than the steel rotors they are contacting. Therefore, the ceramic pads will last LONGER than the rotor in most cases. He was not trying to sell me pads or rotors-- I had already bought my own.

So, keep that in mind for any car... This makes sense when you look at it. The auto parts stores are pushing ceramic pads left and right-- Because you get to buy new rotors sooner than later, which cost more than new pads...

[psychos2]

Anyway, as the tech put the new rotors on the hub for me, we chatted for a while, and his opinion was the ceramic pads are only necessary on the 3 cars in the US market that come with them. They were all high end $80-$90K+++ luxury cars.

Ceramic pads are harder than the steel rotors they are contacting. Therefore, the ceramic pads will last LONGER than the rotor in most cases. He was not trying to sell me pads or rotors-- I had already bought my own.

So, keep that in mind for any car... This makes sense when you look at it. The auto parts stores are pushing ceramic pads left and right-- Because you get to buy new rotors sooner than later, which cost more than new pads...

like you said thats his opinion.and if you talk to others they will say you don't need stainless steel brake lines .there are 3 cars that come with them blah blah blah.the auto parts store did not push them (ceramic pads)on me i decided i wanted them.i did not like the stock pads.the same thing can be said for other stuff to, like tires .they chose those tires for a reason blah blah blah. and are the pads really harder? i don't know. are the stock steel rotors garbage? mine are. shawn

[Maugan_VX]

and are the pads really harder? i don't know.

The ceramic pads are harder than the material that the rotor is made out of.

Therefore, its no wonder than you think the stock rotors are crap when the pads you bought for them are eating them away. The pads are supposed to be the sacrificial lamb in the braking process, not the much more expensive rotor.

Don't say that the isuzu rotor is crap when you were the one that destroyed it by putting the wrong pads on the brakes.