Hi James, I read your post. I am looking to replace the rotors and brakes on my 85 K10, and was wondering the same thing. Should I buy the one piece hub rotor combo, or try and re-use my old hub? What advice do you have? What did you end up replacing?
Did you replace the bearings? Or did you simply just tighten them?
Any advice would be welcome,
thanks
Paul
I found a couple threads that you could look through-
http://www.gmsquarebody.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1116
http://www.gmsquarebody.com/forum/showthread.php?t=115
Replacing rotors and hubs depends on a few things, you more than likely dont have too. If the brakes ended up metal to metal you might need to replace rotors, thats going to require getting the studs pressed out and having the two separated, that costs money because you are paying a shop to do it. For a little more money you might as well just get a whole new hub and rotor assembly.
If you are just putting brakes on the truck and not as concerned about everything looking brand new just pull the whole thing off and find a Napa auto parts or any other real parts store with a real brake lathe. I think they charged 60 bucks to turn mine.
As cheap as everything is for these trucks just replace everything! Bearings, calipers, rubber hoses, master cylinder all that ****. The way I handle jobs like this is stockpile parts I get online for cheap and dedicate a weekend to restore everything. For example my 1990 2wd needs brakes bad, instead of just doing brakes I am tearing it all the way down to do some neoprene control arm bushings, paint the control arms, install new ball joints, replace bearings and maybe even get new rotors and hubs just so everything is clean and brand new looking. Rockauto will be your friend in all this, they have AC Delco parts for cheap. You can go with brands like Autozone for stuff like calipers and master cylinders, they work fine but are not the same quality. 3 or 4 years later my 85 is still running around with the same autozone brake parts on it.