What to do if your rear brake rotor is stuck?
What to do if your rear brake rotor is stuck?
Normally after you remove the caliper, you can just pull the rotor right off the wheel studs. But if it wont pull off with ease, its probably rusted on. The first thing you want to do is spray some PB in the stud holes. Then you can try and hit the rotor where pointed out with a rubber hammer. If that doesnt free it up, continue.
How do you remove a drum in hat rotor?
You may have to adjust the parking brake and back it off the rotor in order to remove the rear rotor. If you are having trouble removing a drum-in-hat rotor, don’t just take a hammer to it. You may have to adjust the parking brake and back it off the rotor in order to remove the rear rotor.
What causes the rotor to stick to the parking brake?
When the parking brake isn’t used, rust and corrosion build up inside the drum. This causes the drum-in-hat rotor to stick to the parking brake. Therefore, to remove the rotor, you have to back the parking brake off the drum lining.
Normally after you remove the caliper, you can just pull the rotor right off the wheel studs. But if it wont pull off with ease, its probably rusted on. The first thing you want to do is spray some PB in the stud holes. Then you can try and hit the rotor where pointed out with a rubber hammer. If that doesnt free it up, continue.
You may have to adjust the parking brake and back it off the rotor in order to remove the rear rotor. If you are having trouble removing a drum-in-hat rotor, don’t just take a hammer to it. You may have to adjust the parking brake and back it off the rotor in order to remove the rear rotor.
When the parking brake isn’t used, rust and corrosion build up inside the drum. This causes the drum-in-hat rotor to stick to the parking brake. Therefore, to remove the rotor, you have to back the parking brake off the drum lining.
If you are having trouble removing a drum-in-hat rotor, don’t just take a hammer to it. You may have to adjust the parking brake and back it off the rotor in order to remove the rear rotor. In this training video, we walk you through how to adjust the parking brake in order to remove a rear rotor that is stuck.
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