WAHOO!! Yippee!! I'd buy the house a round if we were all together.
Back on page 598,
I posted a list of parts for 1973 RM350 chassis.
Towards the end of the list I mentioned I hadn't been able to find replacement brake rotors ... guess what UPS just delivered to my door!!
Background: I've spent over two (almost three) years trying to get my hands on these, using every trick in my considerable repertoire. I managed to identify two manufacturers, with corresponding part numbers. However, I was repeatedly unable to find anyone, anywhere, that had any for sale. (I started to be concerned that they'd been dropped by the manufacturers but hadn't yet been cleared out of the catalogs & databases.)
During this time, I was working for a local parts store that was belong to a national chain. I cross-referenced the manufacturers' part numbers and ordered a pair of the rotors ... four times. Long story short, I was told after the fourth time ordering that they weren't available and to quit "clogging" the order system. The store boss also tried ordering the rotors twice, using other means of looking them up. Both of those times the ordered rotors came in but it was immediately clear they weren't correct ... being the '"high-hat" type suitable for RM300, CB300, B300, D300 and various other 1-ton Dodge chassis.
A couple of weeks ago, I was having trouble sleeping (service-connected issues) so I tried (again) to Google them to see if anything had changed.
It blew my mind ... sources popped up all over the place, with most claiming to have them in stock.
Most surprisingly, Amazon.com listed them ... through Amazon itself, not one of its associate retailers. At that time, they showed them as being out of stock (familiar story) but the listing said they had more coming. A week ago, just before the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividends showed up, the Amazon listing changed to indicate they had two in stock, which I promptly ordered.
After several days of expecting something to go wrong, they showed up at my doorstep.
I now have all the parts I need to completely restore and rebuild front end, to better than new specifications.
The rotors I got are manufactured by Centric, part number 120.67011. The Amazon.com page is
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001O95OAC/ref=pe_385040_121528360_TE_dp_1.
BTW: Amazon shipped them for free under their super saver offer. Also, the TWO rotors, through Amazon, cost less than my former employer wanted for ONE rotor, with my employee discount. (And, of course, were "unavailable".)
