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Originally Posted by SNsLude
I'll keep it short. To correct you it's the pads/calipers doing all the work of the braking, not your studs.
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Lots of things do the work of braking. Your pads, calipers, two caliper bolts, rotors, wheel studs, your wheels, tires and the pavement under them all do the same amount of work. Nothing is sitting there exerting force without being supported by something else.
Wheel studs don't warp because they're braced, and they have nowhere to go. If they failed, it would be in the sheer direction or the tensile direction, and AFAIK automotive parts like that are meant to break at about 5 times the force they're expected to endure.
Rotors can warp because they're sitting in free air with nothing to support them. And I believe they warp not because of the force put on them under braking, but because when they get really hot and then cool down, if the brakes are applied, the pads don't allow them to cool as fast in that one spot and they distort. This is why, after driving on a track, you never park with your e-brake on.
If the rotor could move and the two screws were holding the rotor in one place, they would be doing all the work of braking. It doesn't make sense to say that the rotor is jammed up against the studs but the two screws are stablizing it somehow. The rotor can be up against one surface or the other, not both. I have a feeling it doesn't move at all due to the clamping force of the wheel and the hub.
Edit: Yes, the screws are available from Honda. They come individually packaged.
They're always available because they are the same for most Honda vehicles.
