Removing front rotors on a GT PP

[Ugly John]

How do you remove these rotors?

I was replacing a wheel stud yesterday, and everything I'd seen says to remove the clips holding the rotors, and they would just slide off. But, mine didn't have any clips, and they wouldn't budge! There was also a lot of rust on the center portion of the rotor. I had a 3 lb sledge I was tapping the rotor with (over a heavy dishtowel folded over a couple times), and there was zero movement.

Is there another design out there?

I ended up being able to replace the wheel stud with the rotor in place, and used an old lug nut to pull it in.

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[HISSMAN]

This might be a dumb question.. But did you remove the calipers?

 

[armykyle1 [HACKED ACCOUNT]

If you have calipers and everything else removed. Put your lug nuts (so you don't hit the threads) back on all the studs and hit the hub part (part that the wheel touches) of the rotor with a hammer. You might have to wack it a few times, in different spots. Once you have it removed, clean the excess rust of the rotor and hub surface and then apply a light coat of anti-seize.

 

[Ugly John]

This might be a dumb question.. But did you remove the calipers?

No problem with asking a dumb question - I do that all the time. If you don't ask, you're never sure if you're missing the easiest solution.

But yes, the caliper was off.

 

[Ugly John]

If you have calipers and everything else removed. Put your lug nuts (so you don't hit the threads) back on all the studs and hit the hub part (part that the wheel touches) of the rotor with a hammer. You might have to wack it a few times, in different spots. Once you have it removed, clean the excess rust of the rotor and hub surface and then apply a light coat of anti-seize.

Wouldn't this just push the rotor back against the hub? Why would this work if tapping it outward wouldn't?

 

[spiller]

Wouldn't this just push the rotor back against the hub? Why would this work if tapping it outward wouldn't?

Taping it on the outside losens the seizure of the rotor hat on the hub.

 

[wireeater]

Wouldn't this just push the rotor back against the hub? Why would this work if tapping it outward wouldn't?

Not if you're hitting it on the outer edge. You are basically making the hub teeter to the side. Tap it on all four corners a few times and it will break it loose then you should be able to pull it out.

 

[TNcoupe]

Tap it in between the lug studs with a ball peen or hit the backside with a rubber or plastic dead blow hammer. Mine are rusted on all the time. I finally sanded everything down and applied anti seize to all the mating surfaces.

 

[jbailer]

I literally JUST had this problem. I was trying to take them off, had the calipers off and just couldn't get them free. I was starting to think maybe there was something else holding them on. I have a large rubber mallet I used, hit them from the back and finally goth them off. Now I need to clean them up good and put some anti-seize on them before putting them back on. I've never had that problem before.

Is aluminum anti-seize ok to use there?

 

[armykyle1 [HACKED ACCOUNT]

Wouldn't this just push the rotor back against the hub? Why would this work if tapping it outward wouldn't?

It's going to break the rust loose.

 

[PatrickGT]

When you have the rotors/wheels off, make sure to wire wheel away the corrosion and add some of the silver anti-sieze paste to prevent this from happening in the future (and also to prevent the horrible rust streaks on your rear wheels).

FWIW this Mustang does it about 10000x worse than my BMWs, VWs, Hondas, or Cadillac.

 

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[SYK]

hammer

 

[HISSMAN]

hammer

If that doesn't work... BFH will work.

 

[5LITERV8]

I found this to be the easiest way to remove a stuck rotor. I just helped my buddy with his 2013 Audi S4 and if it wasn't for this trick there was no way we could have taken it off.

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