I hate doing brakes somedays| Off-Topic Discussion forum |

Grtechguy PowerDork
4/21/12 3:28 p.m.

From a berkeleying escort of all things. PB blast over night, the magic blue wrench and the BFH for about an hour. grrrr..

anybody want this thing?

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/cto/2966895367.html

ThePhranc HalfDork
4/21/12 3:30 p.m.

First time I've ever seen that.

fasted58 UltraDork
4/21/12 3:34 p.m.

ya done broke everything.. including the driveway

ShadowSix Reader
4/21/12 3:36 p.m.

Me too, they were rusted on? You guys must use some special kind of road salt up there...

Grtechguy PowerDork
4/21/12 3:36 p.m.

The broken craftsman 3/8" wrench from the pickup last night not shown. It's been a hard weekend on my tools.

Rusted on, welded on... who the berkeley knows. Stuck hard is all I know

John Brown GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/21/12 3:48 p.m.

Grtechguy wrote: From a berkeleying escort of all things. PB blast over night, the magic blue wrench and the BFH for about an hour. grrrr.. anybody want this thing? http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/cto/2966895367.html

Trade you for a 90k Camaro that seems as if every contact wishes to be hand massaged before coming back to life after sitting 9 years...

John Brown GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/21/12 3:50 p.m.

BTW that happens more often than you think. It is a kind of Galvanic fusion that bonds the two pieces of metal together (hub face and rotor). We see weekly at work.

Lesley UberDork
4/21/12 3:55 p.m.

It took a pry bar and 2x4 to get this off my Dakota:

Grtechguy PowerDork
4/21/12 3:56 p.m.

1st time I've broken rotors removing them. let alone both

akamcfly HalfDork
4/21/12 3:59 p.m.

Looks like you won.

benzbaronDaryn Dork
4/21/12 4:03 p.m.

I remember when I did the rear brakes on my truck there was a paper gasket between either the wheel and drum or drum and hub assembly don't remember which. Maybe you could use a paper gasket soaked in grease to prevent that in the future.

mtn PowerDork
4/21/12 4:07 p.m.

It took my buddy and I a good 4 hours to get two rotors off of my Miata last fall. I hate salt.

Ranger50 SuperDork
4/21/12 4:28 p.m.

You need a bigger BFH.... Once I had my little 4# BFH, I haven't had a rotor stick to a hub yet.

Grtechguy PowerDork
4/21/12 4:31 p.m.

I had a 6lb mini-sledge

Ian F UberDork
4/21/12 4:41 p.m.

Ok... Fighting with a rotor retaining screw wasn't that bad...

akamcfly HalfDork
4/21/12 4:56 p.m.

You persisted and you won

A toast to you!

dmyntti New Reader
4/21/12 4:59 p.m.

Been there before, brings back bad memorys of an Elantra. Fought the first one for an hour before it broke, the second one I just decided to break it off and not even try to save it. Use lots of antisieze on the hub face when installing the new rotors and on the rotors lug face to keep the wheels from sticking.

mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/21/12 6:23 p.m.

yea.. been there, done that... I wish I had the tee shirt

former520 Reader
4/21/12 7:16 p.m.

My first car was a 83 1/3 Mercury Linx (Ford Escort), the rotors were so bad they needed replacement and the local mechanic couldn't get them off they were so bad. We ended up getting entire assemblies (struts, hubs, axles) from the junk yard and putting them in as it was less trouble. This would have been ~94 in Minnesota.

RealMiniDriver SuperDork
4/21/12 8:32 p.m.

You had more trouble than me today. I had to wrestle with seized rotor retaining screws on the Mini.

Brett_Murphy GRM+ Memberand Dork
4/21/12 8:47 p.m.

Seized rotor retaining screws drive me nuts. I've had to drill out most of the ones I've dealt with.

Total PITA.

Duke UberDork
4/21/12 9:29 p.m.

Those things are the only reason I have an impact driver.

EvanB GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
4/21/12 10:44 p.m.

Took me less than an hour yesterday to do the rear brakes on my Miata. I love the threaded holes they put on them that you can screw a bolt into to break it loose from the hub.