Stupid rocks!

[jg09]

I keep getting rocks stuck between the front pads and rotors whenever I go in gravel. I swear sometimes I THINK about gravel and the next thing I know, there's a piece in there. So my question is this: is there anything at all I can do to cut down on the amount of gravel that gets in? I'm sure it must be beating up the brakes.

[Huffer]

Don't drive on gravel. ;)

Ok, seriously? The only thing you can do is put some kind of cover over the back of the wheel/brake assembly... complicated and a lot of work to fab things.

[rougeben83]

slotted rotors.

[jg09]

Don't drive on gravel. ;)

Ok, seriously? The only thing you can do is put some kind of cover over the back of the wheel/brake assembly... complicated and a lot of work to fab things.

It has a dust shield thing on it already, so I'm thinking I could remove that and replace it with a bigger/better one?

And I don't know why I didn't think of slotted rotors as being able to fix that. :-? I should've thought of that BEFORE I got 4 new solid rotors!

[decke48]

its has to be a very small rock to get stuck between the rotor and pad. smaller that .100". it might be a rock getting stuck between the dust shield and the rotor?

[jg09]

The little guys stay in there for quite a while, even at high speeds. It seems like if it were stuck in the dust shield, they'd come out sooner and with less issue.

[99gtlimited]

and this has happened more than once?

[jg09]

It's happened 4 times now.

[99gtlimited]

time to fab something up! good luck, sounds like a pain having to deal with it all the time.

[jg09]

Okay, well as an update, I never got around to fabbing anything up, but it just suddenly stopped. I've been in the gravel a lot more since then, too. It's weird, but I'm not complaining about it, that's for sure.