![]() 10/29/2017 at 18:29 • Filed to: brakes | ![]() | ![]() |
Then I installed my wife’s winter tire.
Spent at least 5 hours out in the cold drizzle doing it. Took way longer than I expected since the rotors were so rusty that they didn’t want to move. I had to do the 2 bolt trick.
Her car only has 50000 Kms but here the rust does more damage than usage. Did the rears last year.
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I remember having a similar issue changing the brake discs on my Twingo. Me and 4 muddyfeet ended up bashing them with hammers until they worked free. Absolutely destroyed them before they eventually could be removed.
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Oh I did bash on them too, but not with a hammer, I used a 10lbs sledge hammer to break up the rust. With the bolts from behind you push out the rotor. You have to rotate it many times though. I had the same experience with the rears last year, only less of a pain to remove them.
I applied some anti-seize before installing the new rotors.
The old rotors were so rusty that the ends were swollen witch would make the brake pedal all squishy. Now it’s nice and firm.
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That’s a cool trick. I wish I’d learned about it sooner. Years ago, I had to remove rotors with sledgehammer and 3ft long crowbar.
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I learnt it last year will doing the rears on her car. All my other cars I did had a threaded hole in them to insert a bolt to push them out.
Also bought a calliper tool since you can’t just push them in on her Elantra.
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Yeah, I got one of those for my Mustang once I got tired of trying to make needle-nose pliers work without slipping. Not even one of the six sides would fit my calipers though, so I had to do a little filing to a couple of the pins. Wasn’t expecting to have to do that haha.
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Pneumatic hammer does wonders for breaking the rusted rotor to hub connection. Also, do you spread a thin layer of anti seize on the hub lip when you reinstall? Makes removal much easier, as does the newer coated rotors.
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Yeah the bolts trick isn’t something I’d seen before to be honest, seems useful.
I applied anti-sieze on my new ones too, wish the OEM would apply it at the factory...