Re: 02 Wrangler Brake Rotor Fiasco
I went thru the same thing on my girlfriends 99 XJ. Swapped the
rotors out, and the damn thing wouldn't move. Took it all back apart, and low-and-behold the inside pads were actually cracked, from when I tightened the lug nuts. Couldn't believe it. What a way to waste a whole weekend, and of course, now I know I need the $100 rotors...life's a beeatch sometimes. -- -- Joe Pribe NC jpribe 'at' nc.rr.com <you know the drill jegp 'at' hotmail.com < at is really @ ---- I Love My O|||||||O TJ "Pete Elton" <elton@wiz.jeep.ard.com> wrote in message news:X41ac.7703$ol3.5673@fe03.usenetserver.com... | | After 20,000 miles, my rotors are in need of replacement. | I already know that I am too hard on the brake pedal and I | have no one to blame but myself for my warped rotors. | | I went to AutoZone to get pads and rotors. | They gave me Aimco 5115 rotors. These are the rotors | they show in their computer and it's also listed on their | website as the correct rotors for the 02 Wrangler. | | I pull the brakes apart, slap on the new rotors and pads, | put everything back together and go to back out of the | garage...the Jeep won't budge. I even slightly spun the | back tires trying to get the Jeep to roll backwards. | | I pull everything apart and take the rotors back to AutoZone. | They double check the numbers and I insist that there has | to be a problem with these. I run over to PepBoys and get | Raybestos rotors part number 7142. I get the same results. | I had high hopes as these were Raybestos and the others were | Aimco (who ever heard of them). Now I break out the tape | measure and start taking every single measurement I can | think of comparing the original rotors to the new ones. | If you place the rotors 'upside' down with the lug holes | flat on the workbench and then measure up to the surface | of the rotor, both the Aimco 5115 and Raybestos 7142 measure | 3 inches where the original rotors measures 2 3/4 inches! | The 1/4 inch loss is huge. What I had done was when I put | the tires back on, torqueing the lug nuts down pushed the rotors | snug into the backplate so much that they would not even turn. | | At this point, I visit the Raybestos site and find that the | rotor they list for the 2002 Wranger is p/n 76923. PepBoys | doesn't stock this one (of course), but the parts guy was kind | enough to point me to a local parts wholeseller that did have | them. In the end, it cost me about $80 per rotor versus the | $29.95 per rotor I started with at AutoZone. | | The point is, perhaps I can save some other poor soul from | going through this exercise on their own. | | So for the 2002 Wrangler, get the Raybestos 76923 rotors! | | Pete | | -- | | Pete Elton | 2002 Solar Yellow TJ (Wrangler X) | 1950 Orange CJ-3A | m416 trailer http://vegasauto.net/m416/ | | remove the '.jeep.' for the correct e-mail address. | |
Re: 02 Wrangler Brake Rotor Fiasco
In article <4iXac.3620$w84.550558@twister.southeast.rr.com> ,
jpribe@nc.rr.com says... > I went thru the same thing on my girlfriends 99 XJ. Swapped the > rotors out, and the damn thing wouldn't move. Took it all back apart, > and low-and-behold the inside pads were actually cracked, from when I > tightened the lug nuts. Couldn't believe it. What a way to waste a > whole weekend, and of course, now I know I need the $100 > rotors...life's a beeatch sometimes. > > -- > Same here on a '00 xj. scratched my head to pieces on it until I got smart and measured the inside opening. front wheels actually dragged in the gravel when I tried to back up. what a fiasco is right. |
Re: 02 Wrangler Brake Rotor Fiasco
In article <4iXac.3620$w84.550558@twister.southeast.rr.com> ,
jpribe@nc.rr.com says... > I went thru the same thing on my girlfriends 99 XJ. Swapped the > rotors out, and the damn thing wouldn't move. Took it all back apart, > and low-and-behold the inside pads were actually cracked, from when I > tightened the lug nuts. Couldn't believe it. What a way to waste a > whole weekend, and of course, now I know I need the $100 > rotors...life's a beeatch sometimes. > > -- > Same here on a '00 xj. scratched my head to pieces on it until I got smart and measured the inside opening. front wheels actually dragged in the gravel when I tried to back up. what a fiasco is right. |
Re: 02 Wrangler Brake Rotor Fiasco
In article <4iXac.3620$w84.550558@twister.southeast.rr.com> ,
jpribe@nc.rr.com says... > I went thru the same thing on my girlfriends 99 XJ. Swapped the > rotors out, and the damn thing wouldn't move. Took it all back apart, > and low-and-behold the inside pads were actually cracked, from when I > tightened the lug nuts. Couldn't believe it. What a way to waste a > whole weekend, and of course, now I know I need the $100 > rotors...life's a beeatch sometimes. > > -- > Same here on a '00 xj. scratched my head to pieces on it until I got smart and measured the inside opening. front wheels actually dragged in the gravel when I tried to back up. what a fiasco is right. |
Re: 02 Wrangler Brake Rotor Fiasco
In article <4iXac.3620$w84.550558@twister.southeast.rr.com> ,
jpribe@nc.rr.com says... > I went thru the same thing on my girlfriends 99 XJ. Swapped the > rotors out, and the damn thing wouldn't move. Took it all back apart, > and low-and-behold the inside pads were actually cracked, from when I > tightened the lug nuts. Couldn't believe it. What a way to waste a > whole weekend, and of course, now I know I need the $100 > rotors...life's a beeatch sometimes. > > -- > Same here on a '00 xj. scratched my head to pieces on it until I got smart and measured the inside opening. front wheels actually dragged in the gravel when I tried to back up. what a fiasco is right. |
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