Brake Grumpage

[nightfighter]

Drums and rotors are now made to such precise increments that they don't even allow room for a cut. Two brothers who do my work, and are fishing buds, said today that they haven't used their lathe to do a cut in years. The kits are now also packaged with rotors, drums and pads. And they end up rusting out from the inside anyway.... so that if you had room for a cut, you would rather just put new drums and rotors on after seeing the backside.......

[sok]

That's why every time I had to do a brake job for me I replaced everything. Replacement brake parts for most American vehicles are relatively cheap. Full size Ford truck- $45 per rotor.
They would have charged me $15 each to turn them.
$60 plus pads for brand new brakes. I had to pay for the pads anyway.
It's my life.
More precise in the manufacturing process.
Yes.
But 100 year old technology.(Maybe 75)
Brakes are brakes are brakes.
And everything rusts eventually. Welcome to New England.