Did I ruin my rotors?
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Did I ruin my rotors?
I was looking through my Haynes manual last night and saw a picture of someone cleaning up a rotor. The caption said something like "be careful to not damage the soft material along the edges of the rotors". In the area between the side seals and the outer edge of the rotor there was something that looked like built-up junk, so I took a scotchbrite chucked into my drill and removed it. Did I ruin my rotors? I'll try to get some pictures tonight.
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Originally Posted by 64mgb
Hmmm...I guess I've never seen side seals on a brake rotor LOL. Sorry, engine rotors...
Side seals, My first thought was WTF are side seals (thinking about brake rotors) then, ohhhhh side seals. I believe they're called corner seals
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Originally Posted by kevinbtz
did you only do it in that one section, or all of the rotor?
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ouch, you can probably still build it, but it will not have that safe guard when the side seal compreses all the way it will be metal to metal. The engin would most likely have a desent life span. ( I have never built a engin with rotors like that, this is just what I would think)
P.S. Port it BIG so you have a motor last 15,000 miles anway...
P.S. Port it BIG so you have a motor last 15,000 miles anway...
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Originally Posted by Rx7carl
That coating is to reduce carbon buildup over the life of the engine. The rotors arent ruined.
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