Well in preparation to install my new ART front's in about 2 weeks, I decided to put my car up on jackstands today and try to disassemble the front brake assembly. I had a buddy come up, we knocked on the two bracket bolts with a hammer a little bit (shock therapy works wonders!), and took the caliper off the front-left disc.

After setting the caliper on a maksshift brick platform, we visually inspected the rotor. It had a couple of small gouges running the entire circle of the disc. and thee distinct impressions of a brake pad on the outer face of the rotor. This part puzzled me the most because I'm always careful not to sit with hot pads pressed against hot rotors.. Hmm..

So we looked around for a nut that would fit in those small holes on the rotor to push it off the hub. No luck.. Can anyone give methe measurements on that nut so I can remote the rotors with ease in two weeks?

After re-attaching the caliper (we didn't remove pads--I'm not ready to start screwing with fluid just yet.), I went for a drive.

The wobble & shake that would rattle my bones when I so much as tapped the brake pedal was all but gone. There was a little shake when I really beared down on the pedal, and it still took more pedal than normal to bring the car to a halt, but the shake was very much reduced..

20 miles later it was back, though.. I guess I'd better drop this check in the mail to ART..


-Adam