Re: rear brake rotors

[Simon Favre <simon@domain.elided>]

Eric Storhok wrote:

>I'm sure that some of you have changed the rear brake rotors on your 
>105/115 series cars.  For the past 2 weeks, I've been trying to- started 
>with a light hammer and a piece of wood, to a dead blow hammer, to propane
>heat and a dead blow hammer, and then to a MAP gas heater and a dead blow 
>hammer.
>
>Finally, last night I borrowed a REALLY big gear puller from the garage 
>here at work.  Even that struggled- the rotor was bending a bit, and I had
>to hit the hub with a metal hammer for the shock load, but it finally came
>off!!!
>
>Of course, I'll have to change them, thank God the rotors are cheap.  But
>you can count of some type of anti-sieze put on that hub!!!

Eric, if it's really being that stubborn, the most expedient way to get
the rotor off is to pull the axle and put the whole assembly in a press.
You rest the inboard side of the rotor on the press rails and press on the
center of the hub. Of course, I've also gotten them off by just holding the
axle up in the air, and slamming the studs down on a board. ;=)

Yes, anti-sieze is great stuff...

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