Breaks
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GMAN
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That dosen't hold on the rotor. Tap the rotor with a mallet and it will come off.
Dern Humpus
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Rotating your rotors?
Frogman
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Don't forger to change the air in your tires while you’re at it.
Why would you want to rotate your rotors? Do you mean TURN the rotors?
If so, do what Gman said. Just tap them with a mallet. The big 36mm nut holds the hub on the spindle. You don’t really wanna take that off for 2 reasons:
1. You don’t need to
2. You’ll need to replace it with a new nut, as you cannot reuse that nut.
Why would you want to rotate your rotors? Do you mean TURN the rotors?
If so, do what Gman said. Just tap them with a mallet. The big 36mm nut holds the hub on the spindle. You don’t really wanna take that off for 2 reasons:
1. You don’t need to
2. You’ll need to replace it with a new nut, as you cannot reuse that nut.
MonsterMark
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I was still chuckling at "breaks".
That nut you seek to remove is what holds the spindle containing the 'weal' bearings. You don't want to or need to remove in order to remove the rotor.
You need to hit the rotor with a rubber hammer along the rotor surface. It is simply rusted on right now. A couple of well placed blows should do the trick.
Also, I do cryogenic rotor treatment as a side business so I know a little bit about rotors. I would advise against turning the rotors. Just go buy some new ones at Autozone. They are cheap enough to just go with new vs turning them.
If you remove that nut, you will need a new crush sleeve to reinstall the nut and it must be properly torqued to like 250lbs (IIRC) or your wheel bearing will fail prematurely.
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JoeyLincolnMK8
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spray some WD-40 and let it sit for awhile. then hit the hub with a hammer. try not to hit the rotor.
Frat-man-du
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Whack it hard! I replaced all 4 rotors last spring, they were all corroded and stuck on pretty good.
Since I was replacing I was able to hit with out worrying about any damage.
Since I was replacing I was able to hit with out worrying about any damage.
k9t8m
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Before you put them back on hit the hub and back of the rotor with a wire wheel or scotch brite to get all the corrosion off. You could even put a little Anti-sieze on it if you wanted to.
Redwingvksm
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Buy NEW rotors.
Hammer the old rotors like hell all over the rotor itself. Don't worry about damaging the old rotors - you have new ones.
Clean off the hub and the whole area where the old rotor came off from debrits/rust.
Clean off oil off of new rotors. Install rotors/pads/caliper.
Repeat on remaning 3 hubs.
Done!
Hammer the old rotors like hell all over the rotor itself. Don't worry about damaging the old rotors - you have new ones.
Clean off the hub and the whole area where the old rotor came off from debrits/rust.
Clean off oil off of new rotors. Install rotors/pads/caliper.
Repeat on remaning 3 hubs.
Done!
kustomizingkid
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On my friends 94 Camaro we had to take the front hubs off the car and press the rotors off with a 50 Ton shop press they were so rusted on, I love Minnesota!!