I thought I’d post this pic just to see if it’s the worst rotor anyone has ever seen…
This Sammi has been sitting in my folk’s back yard for a couple of years, it used to be my Gramp’s hunting rig. My half-wit brother drove it for a while then parked it in the back yard, he’s responsible for the condition it was in when I took over. The truck has 154000 miles on it but about 30000 of those were towed behind Gramp’s motorhome. Gramps has a thing about putting mud flaps and bug deflectors and other superfluous geegaws on his cars, as it sat it had hubcaps on the stock wheels and like a fool I didn’t take them off and look at the brakes before I drove it.
I gave gramps $50 for the title, charged the battery and hosed down the carb with some cleaner, aired up the tires then dumped a couple of gallons of regular in the tank and it fired right up. I drove it out of the back yard then around the block and it seemed ok enough to drive carefully to my place, so off I went on the 18 mile trip.
On the way home I noticed that the brakes were pulling a little to the right so I put her up on jackstands, pulled the front wheels and this is what I found on the right side. I can’t believe it didn’t come apart on me! The edges are literally knife thin.
No local auto parts stores had rotors in stock but luckily I found some in great condition for $15 each at a junkyard.
