Hi there, first post and first question to 944 owners...

[MrPants]

Originally posted by gearhead290
Not trying to sound like a smart @$$ (ok, so I am) but they're as related as tires and wheels. If you drive for a long ways on a flat tire it damages the wheel, same goes for rotors. Your wheels studs are hooked into your rotors and if they aren't all at the same torque they will cause the rotor to be pulled out at certain points and not at others. Thus causing it to become wavy which will cause it to warp your rotors.

my 944 has hubs (or drums in the case of my rear brakes)

[944S Boyeee]

Cooler - I can rip a phone book in half - wanna know the trick?

944S Boyeee

[scottmandue]

Boyeee, soak it in water overnight?

Yo mama, your probably looking at your parking brake, if you look through the rear wheels from the outside you should see a disk.

[scottmandue]

Boyeee, I get it... it's a Nova Scotia phone book right?

[MrPants]

Originally posted by scottmandue
Boyeee, soak it in water overnight?

Yo mama, your probably looking at your parking brake, if you look through the rear wheels from the outside you should see a disk.

yea youre right i just meant that the wheel makes contact with the drums on the rear (as opposed to the hub or the actual rotors)

[944S Boyeee]

Nope - that's cheating. I can pick up any regular phone book and rip it in half. I have ripped a few Yellow-pages also, but those bad-boys are hard.

The phone books in Nova Scotia are 2.75 inches think.

The trick is to get a bend in the backbone of the book. Grab the book with both hands, holding the backbone only - like you're trying to read the words on the backbone. Now take both thumbs and push up towards the center until your thumbs almost touch each other. What you're trying to do is make a "line" in the backbone of the book right straight up between the thumbs. Hold the book in that postion - pressure will be heavy on your thumbs. Now the key is to hold your thumbs there and push in against the pressure of where your thumbs are and "snap" the book in a downward motion like you would a piece of wood or something - pulling down and outwards. This breaks the back and makes a rip in the book - pulling a phone book apart from there is easy. You can also try the "make line with thumb-pull apart" method using the part of the phone book that opens up, but the pages move more, so it's harder. This whole technique has to be juuuuuust right or nothing will happen. It takes practice - but once you rip your first book, you will be asking everyone "got any old phone books lying around"? Also, after doing 3 or 4 books in a row, your wrist will kill you - it does take strength.

Go grab an old phone book and make a slight cut in the backbone (at the top) and try pulling it in half - it's easy to do.

944S Boyeee