quick reply needed...

[Huw Powell]

> doing front brake rotor r/r on my 87 4kcs quattro.  everything's out of the way,
> but the rotor... er... won't come off.  what do i do? take a mallet to it?
> there's no retaining screw, as my repair manual claims.

yah, big hammer might work.  Another really crude trick is to drive it a
foot or two with the wheel bolted on loosely.

If you can't whack the thing hard enough to remove it (A buddy and I
once pounded the crap out of his MB 230 rotor, with no success, except
that all the dents made it brake better!), bring it to a shop, where
they'll use the flame wrench to break the corrosion holding it to the
hub in no time at all.

Then clean up the hubs and use anti-seize between them and the rotors -
careful not to get any in/on the lug bolt threads, or of course the
rotor/pad surfaces

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Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/

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