New brakes will drag as pads and rotors break in. Did the Bosch pads have the rough material to aid rotor break in? The other method is to break in the new brakes yourself. Look up new brake pad/rotor break in. I think this is a number of mid...
The wheel shop cleaned the entire wheel with glass bead. The inset holes, lug nut area, and wheel backside were sprayed with Toyota OEM gray. Then the street side of the wheel was machine cut. The CNC lathe process removed any overspray from the...
Two More wheel pictures. I refinished the hub center caps by sand blasting with glass bead to a clean plastic and using Dupli-color silver wheel paint with a 2K clear gloss. The yellow/gold highlights is a high quality pin striping paint.
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I found a wheel restoration place in San Jose, CA to refinish my cruiser wheels ($175.00 each). This company will sand blast the rim using glass bead. Image/Scan the rim and then CNC machine cut the rim surface. Only removing enough...
With some delay. The process continues:
Every suspension bushing has been replaced. On a couple of pieces I saw several tears in the rubber material. My 12 ton press had seen better days and could not handle removing the bushings. Went to...