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So I removerd the nut and the flange and then removed the hub from the lower control arm, knowing that I'd need to press it all apart and take a look. Strangely enough, my press wouldn't shift it.

I ended up having to take it to a local workshop with a serious 100 tonne press and have them do it. Obviously the fact that t was late on a Friday afternoon and the operator wanted to go home and attend to some serious weekend drinking, I don't think he took the care that he should have, and he ended up smashing my rotor!!

Can anyone imagine what that felt like. Here I am on the other side of the World, three days away from driving my car which has been on the hoist for 6 months, and I need a new rear rotor.

Pantera rotor in Australia is about as rare as golden rocking horse sh!t, and no local brake places were able to come up with a solution.

When I got home and got the rest of the bits cleaned up, I noticed really heavy scoring in my nice new axle shaft. inside the larger (outer) bearing there is also really bad scoring, yet this was a brand new bearing onto a brand new axle. Fitted up with a liberal smearing of grease to help the fit, but it's really quite bad.

So here's a couple of interesting questions?

1. Bob's axles are beautifully finished to a very exacting tollerance. The bearing was a new USA manufactured bearing yet somehow I ended up with serious scroing on the axle shaft. How can this be?

2. Why couldn't I get the tension wrench to 'click' at 350lbs like I could on the other side?

3. When first fitted, the rotor turned fine, but when the tesnion of 300 lbs went onto the hub nut I was not able to rotate the disc anymore. I don't get this as you have the axle, then the spacer cup, then the bearing, spacer tube, inner bearing, flange, washer and nut. There isn't anything else and both sides are the same, yet one has 350ft/lbs on it and rotates freely and the other bound up!


Now, for standard rear solid rotors, who is best to get these from?

I see Wilkinsons lists three rotors. One solid, one vented, and one vented GT5.

Will both of the first two fit my car, or do I stick with the solid that it had?