Brake pads and rotors

[Alex d.]

Getting ready to put on some wheel spacer on my Rubicon and most companies, Spidertrax, Synergy and Teraflex recommend using red Loctite. My question is how would you replace your rotors when needed when red Loctite is used? Also should anti seize be applied between the spacers and rotors?

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[Flip]

Red loctite, I'll give you a clue

 

[YBABRAT]

If you torque lug nuts evenly with torque wrench at 90 ft lbs, you should be able to brake free the locate around 120ft lbs. Having an impact wrench available will crack them like butter.

Hope you did not cheap out on spacers... fully hub centric, not just done at hub. There will be a flange at the wheel side to locate and center your wheel to the spacer. Having that type of mounting greatly strengthens load reliability.

Not to steal the thread... just adding info.

I have Rough Country 1.5" Adapters, for my 18" all weather road rims. They are pretty thick and have a large radius, pretty hard to beat.

Images on line don't really give you a good reading on build quality... here is an image of how well made the Adapters are. I assume other big named spacers use similar standards.

Here is an example of good quality and bad....

Rough Country

No name brand... oversized center and smaller diameter. Not as strong as above with loads.

 

[SoK66]

Wheels, tires, brakes, spacers are not a place to cheap out. Hub-centric is absolutely the way to go with wheels and spacers.

One caution, outfits like Discount Tire won’t service vehicles that use spacers. Just adding that Porsche used spacers on some Carrera 4s….

 

[WK2JT]

Wheels, tires, brakes, spacers are not a place to cheap out. Hub-centric is absolutely the way to go with wheels and spacers.

One caution, outfits like Discount Tire won’t service vehicles that use spacers. Just adding that Porsche used spacers on some Carrera 4s….

I believe this is shop to shop dependent. Discount Tire locations in both metro Atlanta and Denver have never said a thing about mine.

 

[Willys41]

Getting ready to put on some wheel spacer on my Rubicon and most companies, Spidertrax, Synergy and Teraflex recommend using red Loctite. My question is how would you replace your rotors when needed when red Loctite is used? Also should anti seize be applied between the spacers and rotors?

Removing and bolt or nut with red or any loctite is simple.
Depending on the size of the bolt use a propane touch and heat it up and they will come tight off.

 

[CarbonSteel]

I ran Synergy 1.75" wheel spacers for about 20K miles before I upgraded wheels and had ZERO issues. Be sure that you buy a quality set and not eBay knock-offs. Also, check the torque on them periodically and you should be fine.

Use orange loctite instead of red since it is "a hybrid formula that combines the strength of red thread locker with the removability of blue thread locker".

https://www.permatex.com/products/t...rength-removable-threadlocker-orange-gel-5-g/

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