Thread: 2000 GTP: Still Alive! New Trans?

Finally back at it, my wife has been pretty sick from pregnancy so I've been taking care of both my son and her. She's starting to feel better more of the time, so I have some time to get back to the car. I went to the JY today and picked up some brake upgrades. Originally I was going to just buy the caliper brackets off of a Deville, and buy the rotors\pads new (giving me the 12 inch brake upgrade). When I found the Deville at the JY the rotors and pads looked damn near brand new, other than the rust. I asked the guy that worked there how much he'd want for rotors and brackets, and he said $30. I went ahead and bought them so he gave me the pads for free. I normally wouldn't use used rotors and pads but these look so close to new I'll try it out.


I set up a hot tank to clean the rust off of the rotors using electrolysis, so we'll see how they turn out. I took a plastic drawer from on of the tool storage rubbermaid things, covered the bottom in some scrap nails I had, then took some old pushrods (from when my truck was flat tappet), clamped them to the out sides of the drawer (making sure that they made contact with the nails at the bottom), then connected all the push rods with some bail wire. Then I hung the rotor in the middle of it all from a prybar and some bolts, making sure it did NOT make contact with anything. Then submersed the rotor in a water\washing soda mix (1TBS:1GAL of water). Once I made sure nothing was making contact with anything I took an OLD battery charger I had laying around and connected the negative cable to the rotor and the positive cable to the nails\pushrods.


I used a similar process with great (although not very fast) results on my truck's heads, so we'll see how these turn out.


Pics:
Hot tank:

The rest of the brake parts, both rotors were in the same condition:

I'm sure I'll still need the rotors turned, but I'd like to clean them off as much as possible while I still can.
This was when I used this method on my heads, I think the rotors will work better. Less water, more metal to clean it, etc.

This was something like 13 hours later:

Originally Posted by Booba5185

Finally back at it, my wife has been pretty sick from pregnancy so I've been taking care of both my son and her. She's starting to feel better more of the time, so I have some time to get back to the car. I went to the JY today and picked up some brake upgrades. Originally I was going to just buy the caliper brackets off of a Deville, and buy the rotors\pads new (giving me the 12 inch brake upgrade). When I found the Deville at the JY the rotors and pads looked damn near brand new, other than the rust. I asked the guy that worked there how much he'd want for rotors and brackets, and he said $30. I went ahead and bought them so he gave me the pads for free. I normally wouldn't use used rotors and pads but these look so close to new I'll try it out.


I set up a hot tank to clean the rust off of the rotors using electrolysis, so we'll see how they turn out. I took a plastic drawer from on of the tool storage rubbermaid things, covered the bottom in some scrap nails I had, then took some old pushrods (from when my truck was flat tappet), clamped them to the out sides of the drawer (making sure that they made contact with the nails at the bottom), then connected all the push rods with some bail wire. Then I hung the rotor in the middle of it all from a prybar and some bolts, making sure it did NOT make contact with anything. Then submersed the rotor in a water\washing soda mix (1TBS:1GAL of water). Once I made sure nothing was making contact with anything I took an OLD battery charger I had laying around and connected the negative cable to the rotor and the positive cable to the nails\pushrods.


I used a similar process with great (although not very fast) results on my truck's heads, so we'll see how these turn out.


Pics:
Hot tank:

The rest of the brake parts, both rotors were in the same condition:

I'm sure I'll still need the rotors turned, but I'd like to clean them off as much as possible while I still can.
This was when I used this method on my heads, I think the rotors will work better. Less water, more metal to clean it, etc.

This was something like 13 hours later:

What is this technique you used on you rotors called. They look brand new!