WTF is up with the front brakes???

[92vig]

Wow, talk about a shitty front brake design! What the hell is this hub connected to rotor crap???? My Vigor is a slip on, the 92 CB7 is a damn integrated piece of shit!

[judonoh]

Welcome to the RUH design.

[noobcake]

lol hub over rotor ftl

[92vig]

Needs new brake pads and I was going to have the rotors turned...they said they wouldn't be able to turn them because they'd need to be turned while on the car. So...gotta get new ones. And I don't feel like going through all the fucking trouble of taking them apart and putting it back together.

On my Vigor, I was trying to change out the rear rotors and the damn screws were rusted in and couldn't get them out. After an hour with the torch, impact driver, and a mallet I gave up and just put the brake pads on and said fuck it.

[Night Wolf]

for you vigor...
drill out those screws. they dont do much except hold the rotor on while the wheel is off.

as for your CB...
just get the CL hub, CB bearing, and any ROH disk & do the ROH conversion. you can just take off the 4 bolts behind the CBs knuckle & remove the whole RUH off bearing,hub,disk all together

lol hub over rotor ftl

you mean hub under rotor ftl

[C91BLX7]

you mean hub under rotor ftl

No he means hub over rotor ftl.


rotor over hub ftmfw

[92vig]

for you vigor...
drill out those screws. they dont do much except hold the rotor on while the wheel is off.

as for your CB...
just get the CL hub, CB bearing, and any ROH disk & do the ROH conversion. you can just take off the 4 bolts behind the CBs knuckle & remove the whole RUH off bearing,hub,disk all together

So if I drill out the screws, do I need to replace them? I don't know how well they'd stay in place without the screws. Seems like they might be tilted slightly or something....dunno.

[Night Wolf]

So if I drill out the screws, do I need to replace them? I don't know how well they'd stay in place without the screws. Seems like they might be tilted slightly or something....dunno.

unless you magicly drive without the rear wheels, it wont mess anything up. your rim holds it in place.

[DaGrk1]

So if I drill out the screws, do I need to replace them? I don't know how well they'd stay in place without the screws. Seems like they might be tilted slightly or something....dunno.

those screws ar there to keep the rotor on while building the car

[wed3k]

agreed, its a piece of shit.

[C91BLX7]

agreed, its a piece of shit.

Not really, Just a pain in the fucking ass.

[wed3k]

Not really, Just a pain in the fucking ass.

so it's a piece of shit design...

whenever im doing axles or something requiring to remove the lower control arm, i always bring up the option of doing the brakes.

it's still expensive, i charged him 100 bucks in labor and 70 bucks in parts. that was while i had everyhing already apart because i was doing a transmission replacement.

[owequitit]

I am fairly certain Honda did it because it made the brake stiffer and helped to avoid rotor warping issues. The only design I have personally seen that was reasonably light and compact that could go 200K on 1 set of rotors as long as the pads were maintained.

Unless there is some kind of vibration while braking, then the rotors are probably fine.

Also, they said they would need to machine the rotors ON the car, according to you (which is consistent with most brake jobs), so what is the issue?

[Fake Thug]

LOL..whats with your sig ^?

Its really not that difficult. About a 4/10.Once downpacked it'll take 30 minutes per side. Undo both axle nuts, break loose the tire lugs, jack up the car, remove the tires. once you have the caliper suspended and the bracket off undo the lower control arm, the upper control arm and tierod end.push the axle out, move the knuckle out the way.

Remove the 4 12 point hub bolts from the back of the knuckle. Stick longer bolts in there, hammer em around evenly, and the hub/rotor pops right off. Undo the rotor bolts from the hub, twist the hub, pull out voila rotor separated. What I usually do is clean off the spindle/whatever with a wire wheel, toss some anti sieze on then reinstall.

peep---> http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=100003

[92vig]

The guy at the shop I usually take my cars to said that they'd have to be machined on the car and he couldn't do it. Beats the living fuck out of me

There is a slight shimmy when braking, as to why I wanted to machine the rotors instead of replacing them. But if I have to replace the rotors, better be a nice sunny day ahead.