Well today I put new brake pads and rotors on my '85 300D. I went in with the impression that it would be a real easy job based on some of the previous threads I had read. Well it was a big PIA! Yes, if I would have only had to just replace the pads it would have be fairly easy, but you always have to machine the rotors. The rest really wasn't. The caliper bolts were hard to get at with a 1/2" drive breaker bar. A 1/2" ratchet just didn't have the leverage to break those bolts free. The rotors came off fairly easily but they were machined so many times that they would not take another machining so I had to replace them. There were five 10mm hex head bolts holding the rotors to the hubs. Again these needed brute force to break loose.
This was by far the most difficult brake job I've done so far and I've done my share of them over the last 25 years.
One good thing though, the total on the pads and rotors only ran me $68. $40 for Teves rotors and $28 for Texstar pads.

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DJ


84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012