RE: Rear axle is ON!!

[Brian Honnold <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>]

Steve is restoring his Rocco slowly so to prevent the inevitable buildup of 
surface rust on the rotors he is wisely coating them before letting it all 
sit through the winter.

Either that or he is just a dumbass. hehe;-)

Brian Honnold
'78 Rocco Ragtop

On Wednesday, September 09, 1998 2:18 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson 
[SMTP:josiah@gsinet.net] wrote:
> Sounds cool, dude! But doesn't putting wheel bearing grease on your
> rotors right before you put them on the car kinda, well, compromise your
> braking efficiency? (laugh) Or am I missing something?
>     -Josiah
>     '83 Scirocco
>     '84 GTi
>     '86 Scirocco 8v
>     '87 QSW
>     http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah
>
> Steven Roth wrote:
>
> >  I'm so happy I  had to tell everyone on the list.  I finally put the
> > rear axle back on my '78 this weekend, along with the DP Motorsport
> > select rims I bought fron Andre, and It looks really really good!
> > Here's what I did:Sandblast & powdercoat the rear axle gloss black,
> > sandblast & powdercoat a sway bar from an '84 Jetta gloss black &
> > install it on the axle, obtain rear disc setup, rebuild calipers, &
> > paint them silver,  sandblast & powdercoat rear rotors, and then have
> > them turned, smear a light coating of wheelbearing grease on them to
> > protect from corrosion, buy new steel brake lines, bend them &
> > install, install new stainless steel braided brake lines (4), install
> > polyurethane rear axle beam bushings, repack wheel bearings, install
> > new dust caps,without denting them (ask me how I did that sometime),
> > install new KYB gas shocks & cut springs from a 16V scirocco, and all
> > new fasteners.    I'm only test fitting everything right now.  I need
> > to see how low the car sits on the cut springs.  Once I'm satisfied
> > with the ride height, I'll sandblast and powdercoat the springs, and
> > buy polyurethane upper shock bushings, and the installation will be
> > complete.  If I can keep this pace up for the rest of the car, It
> > should look pretty good.I'm just so happy to have gotten this far, I
> > had to tell everyone.Thanks for listening.Steve
>
>
>
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