Hub paint
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Hub paint
Anyone here paint their rotor hubs while the wheel is off? Mine are 'ok' but I would like to spruce them up. I have a Black Z with the painted wheels. I don't want red, and I'm not sure I want those covers either. Thanks!
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mine were rusty and i sprayed with a rust coverter, available at boat us or other marine store, it turns them black and kills the rust. Then painted with gray rustoleum hamertone and they have looked like new for two years now.
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A good tape job around the pad path and some caliper paint will do the trick. I did my stock calipers that way.
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Did mine this way.
Pull the wheel. Clean the surface of the hub area with brake cleaner. Then clean with Methyl Alcohol. Mask the entire rotor surface with masking tape. Get your box cutter or scalpel type knife. Spin the rotor observing where the brake pad passes over the masking. Place the knife blade against the closest part (to the hub) of the caliper or pad. Press it into the masked tape. Spin the wheel. Cuts a perfect circle. Peel the inside leaving the outer tape on the rotor. Now spray with VHT caliper paint. I used black.
Pull the wheel. Clean the surface of the hub area with brake cleaner. Then clean with Methyl Alcohol. Mask the entire rotor surface with masking tape. Get your box cutter or scalpel type knife. Spin the rotor observing where the brake pad passes over the masking. Place the knife blade against the closest part (to the hub) of the caliper or pad. Press it into the masked tape. Spin the wheel. Cuts a perfect circle. Peel the inside leaving the outer tape on the rotor. Now spray with VHT caliper paint. I used black.
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Did mine this way.
Pull the wheel. Clean the surface of the hub area with brake cleaner. Then clean with Methyl Alcohol. Mask the entire rotor surface with masking tape. Get your box cutter or scalpel type knife. Spin the rotor observing where the brake pad passes over the masking. Place the knife blade against the closest part (to the hub) of the caliper or pad. Press it into the masked tape. Spin the wheel. Cuts a perfect circle. Peel the inside leaving the outer tape on the rotor. Now spray with VHT caliper paint. I used black.
Pull the wheel. Clean the surface of the hub area with brake cleaner. Then clean with Methyl Alcohol. Mask the entire rotor surface with masking tape. Get your box cutter or scalpel type knife. Spin the rotor observing where the brake pad passes over the masking. Place the knife blade against the closest part (to the hub) of the caliper or pad. Press it into the masked tape. Spin the wheel. Cuts a perfect circle. Peel the inside leaving the outer tape on the rotor. Now spray with VHT caliper paint. I used black.
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You know I was doing some work on the brakes at the same time.
I may have had the pads out of the calipers at the time. Can't truly recall. Masking tape is fairly thin - I think it would work either way.
I may have had the pads out of the calipers at the time. Can't truly recall. Masking tape is fairly thin - I think it would work either way.
