I figured it would be a 45- 1 hour job. Guess I was wrong. I decided to tackle the passenger side first, so I jacked the **** up took the wheel and everything off and it was all going fine until I tried to take the rotor off.
The rears have been on my car since I bought it in August 2001 and who knows how long before that and I've put nearly 100,000 KM on the car since then. Talk about seized to the ****in hub. I figured it would be easy, I grabbed a rubber mallet and started hitting. No luck. I grabbed my old man's torch and heated the **** up for a little bit while I had a smoke and then tried hitting the ****. At this point I had no means of transportation to a parts store to get some penetrating oil, and WD-40 was all we had. It didn't work anyways. I decided to get a metal hammer and bash the ****. THree hits into it my rotor broke roughly between the tophat and the disc so I still couldn't even get the rotor part itself off and I still had to get the ****in **** off my hub eventually.
I tried heating it some more, hitting it, etc..... no luck. I decided to do the other side and come back to this one later so the other side mostly went off without a hitch until it was time to put the **** back together and I waas adjusting the parking brake, about half a turn of teh adjustment wheel, I felt the **** strip, and I thought, ****, nice ****in work idiot. So, I went to the other side, pulled out the adjustment wheel from there and ****ed with the **** until I got it partially adjusted.
It was dark by this time and I still had to go back and deal with the other side I tried hammering a bit more, but to no avail. Luckily I had a 32mm socket from changing a wheel bearing a while backso I ended up taking the ****in hub right off and bashing the piece of rotor off with a sledge hammer.
The **** went mostly alright after that, but now I need some ****in adjustment gears for my rear calipers and probably new calipers in the near future.
The rears have been on my car since I bought it in August 2001 and who knows how long before that and I've put nearly 100,000 KM on the car since then. Talk about seized to the ****in hub. I figured it would be easy, I grabbed a rubber mallet and started hitting. No luck. I grabbed my old man's torch and heated the **** up for a little bit while I had a smoke and then tried hitting the ****. At this point I had no means of transportation to a parts store to get some penetrating oil, and WD-40 was all we had. It didn't work anyways. I decided to get a metal hammer and bash the ****. THree hits into it my rotor broke roughly between the tophat and the disc so I still couldn't even get the rotor part itself off and I still had to get the ****in **** off my hub eventually.
I tried heating it some more, hitting it, etc..... no luck. I decided to do the other side and come back to this one later so the other side mostly went off without a hitch until it was time to put the **** back together and I waas adjusting the parking brake, about half a turn of teh adjustment wheel, I felt the **** strip, and I thought, ****, nice ****in work idiot. So, I went to the other side, pulled out the adjustment wheel from there and ****ed with the **** until I got it partially adjusted.
It was dark by this time and I still had to go back and deal with the other side I tried hammering a bit more, but to no avail. Luckily I had a 32mm socket from changing a wheel bearing a while backso I ended up taking the ****in hub right off and bashing the piece of rotor off with a sledge hammer.
The **** went mostly alright after that, but now I need some ****in adjustment gears for my rear calipers and probably new calipers in the near future.
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