I'm wondering what kind of machine most brake specialty shops use. I'd guess they use whatever is fastest. Is it easier to set up an on-car lathe or to the remove the rotor?
2007-11-06 09:04:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
you have to take them off the car
2007-11-06 09:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by koma 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
On a car with slide off rotor's, which most car's have now, I'd much rather just take them off and use bench lathe. That goes for old school bearing type rotors too, like an '85 Caprice or something.
The only time I use an on-car lathe is on huge PIA rotors like a Ford F-350 rear or front rotor's or on some older Honda's etc. where the rotor is bolted on from behind the hub. Then it's easier to use the on-car than to disassemble everything.
2007-11-06 09:49:20 · answer #2 · answered by Frankie Coletta 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
On Car Brake Lathe
2016-10-03 09:07:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With fall off rotors I always machine them on a brake lathe mounted on a bench. With bearing type rotors or rotors that have to be slide hammered off an on car brake lathe can be the faster and better way to go. With a fall off rotor you have to be sure the rotor is torqued on evenly otherwise you may create a pulsation if you use an on car lathe. The other thing to consider is depending on what type of car you have it may be cheaper just to replace them anyway, then you end up with a full thickness rotor that will outlast a turned rotor.
2007-11-06 14:54:11 · answer #4 · answered by ED 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Almost every shop today turns the brake rotors for front wheel drive vehicles on the car. The reason they do so is that the rotors run-out is affected by the axle and hub so that by turning the rotors (refacing the rotors) on the car there is less chance of a vibration after the new brake pads are installed. Its also faster in most cases to do it on the car and you dont' have to worry about repacking bearings or the like.
turning the rotors on a brake lathe is "old school" and is usually only done on oversized rotors or truck rotors.
hope that helps
2007-11-06 09:13:02 · answer #5 · answered by honda guy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most of them take the discs off the car and use a bench mounted machine
2007-11-06 09:09:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
correction the majority of shops take them off becuz they dont have the machine to turn it on the car, but if they have the machine it would be faster to do it on the car. plus it would give them an excuse to charge more for doing less work
2007-11-06 09:41:08 · answer #7 · answered by anthentherwasi 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋