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Front end (steering wheel) wiggles when brakes are applied. 200

posted by  someone claiming to be miracleman49 on  Tue Jan 29 07:57 CST 2002 [RELATED]

i replaced my 91 240 front rotors with some ventilated korean made rotors from auto zone..wrong answer. one year later and they too are warped..can't stand the heat. I am no deciding (as we speak) to buy some ventilated Zimmermann rotors (German made)for about $70, or go to performance crossdrilled rotors for about $130.

I also rebuilt the calipers, replaced the brake lines, hardware,and pads and then power flushed the system. Some will say warped rotors are due to over tightening the lug nuts. I disagree.

Changing the rotors is simple. Just remove the caliper (two bolts if I remember correctly), swap out the rotors, and reinstall the caliper. The only tricky part is when you go to reinstall the caliper onto the new (wider) rotor, you may have to squeeze the caliper piston to allow enough room for the new rotor.

hope this helps






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