Chevy P30 Chassis 1973 brake rotor clearance.
I had to replace the front rotor on my '73 P30 Sportscoach RV. The local NAPA had no listing for '73 dual rear wheel P30, but they did have one for the '75 and the rotor matched all dimensions, excep...
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SuperDutyFiver wrote:
Well if it may have been an issue on the other side as well I'd just go with it the way you got it together-Of course taking a good test drive to make sure all is good-even maybe pulling the wheel to do a visual afterwards!
Will test drive of course :)
Bigger concern-did you figure out why one side wore faster?
The difference is 10-20%. I've maintained these guys for most of their 40 years, and that much difference doesn't seem unusual to me. Perhaps others can comment? RVs aren't used that much and the difference from one side to the other can result in different amounts of rust/corrosion on the disks and on the slide rails for the calipers. I just figured it's due to those differences.
were the contact points the pads ride in a mess?
Yes, but not worse than usual. I clean them off, lubricate the contact points, inspect the cylinders in the calipers and then monitor them for the first few thousand miles.
Do they make retrofits for those old capipers to add some kind of stainless shims to eliminate the 'stickiness' your pads may have experienced?
Hmmm. I'm not familiar with what you are referring to here. Can you explain?
