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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 03:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Tougelabs
Sorry to be off topic but did you have brembos on your car ? I have an offer on my stock brembos and was thinking about picking up the akebonos and putting a nice set of pads on them etc.
I had just the oem brakes, no brembos. I would go for it, the akebonos are massive and look great. Beside my small issue, I love the way they brake.
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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 03:39 AM
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Originally Posted by beezee
Well i ca't see the graduation on that indicator but if it is a .0001 you have about .0009 total runout. If it is a .0005 you have about .0045.
Its a .001 graduation.
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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Escobar
Its a .001 graduation.
If so then you have a lot of runout. You measure total runout by counting the number of "lines" between the highest and lowest reading. In your case it amounts to about .009 which is quite a lot unless i am not seeing the video right.
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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by beezee
If so then you have a lot of runout. You measure total runout by counting the number of "lines" between the highest and lowest reading. In your case it amounts to about .009 which is quite a lot unless i am not seeing the video right.
Yep thats way too much runout.

Heres mine at the hub:




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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by beezee
If so then you have a lot of runout. You measure total runout by counting the number of "lines" between the highest and lowest reading. In your case it amounts to about .009 which is quite a lot unless i am not seeing the video right.
yeah, you are seeing the video right. I got new rotors coming, hopefully that will take care of it.
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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 04:24 PM
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I need to check it at the hub too, my old brakes were fine but maybe I just didnt notice since the rotors were smaller.
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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 09:14 AM
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Got the new rotors in today, going to slap them on and see if it helps.
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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 03:19 PM
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got the new rotors on and it is a little better but still not perfect. here is a video of the spindle, is this too mcuh out? It moves 3 clicks back and forth...each one is .001, so its .003 out. According to the FSM, .002 or less is acceptable so Im thinking the hub is in need of replacing. I guess I'll order up two of them,.

http://s1214.photobucket.com/albums/...t=IMG_1338.mp4
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Old Nov 6, 2011 | 06:28 AM
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Just to give you guys a heads up the saga is over, turns out it was the front hubs. Replaced them and everything is perfect. Thanks for all your input.
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