Can't get these my rear...HELP :'(

[stevens]

i don't know why the hell they are stuck....i took the grommet out and loosened up the cog wheel gear thingy. but the damn thing wont come off....is my ebrake **** seized open ? holding the rotor back?

like i have no idea...what should i do? anything helps... the cog wheel was hard to turn...i had to use a flat head and a hammer to knock it up (passenger side) ...2015 ram 1500 sport.


YES ive used a sludge

 

[madtrucker2016]

maybe you by mistake was tightening them. That would spread the brake shoes open and hold them to the rotor

 

[ryan russell]

They rust to the center ring. Hammer from inside rotor around it not in one spot

 

[stevens]

i tried.... and no im pushing it the right way.

 

[stevens]

like it's friggen in there good...

 

[MoparBrent]

Trust me when I say I know the struggles you’re facing. I live in northern Ontario, Canada where they throw salt on the roads like it’s going out of style. Take a torch to the rotor between the lugs, spray penetrating fluid Inside the rotor at lugs, and take a good 5pound sledge to it.

It took me a good hour of heat/hammering per rear rotor. Eventually it will let go. You can see the ring of rust that forms and you basically need to bust through it

 

[Craig G]

Go to YouTube search stuck brake rotor they have a great fix to push off using 1/2 bolts. Probably e brake stuck

 

[Craig G]

Had same problem will save your knuckles

 

[TigreST]

What I've done in the past:

Before starting the job:

1) Loosen the lug nuts on the wheel just "that much" (finger all most touching here) to unload the axle lugs from the nuts and wheels.
2) Start the engine and put transmission in drive, roll forward at a slow pace.....slam the brakes on HARD.
3) Put the transmission in reverse and repeat the "roll and SLAM on the brakes".
4) Repeat the above until such time as you feel your ready to jack up the truck and remove wheels and brake rotors...or attempt brake rotor removal.

What you have just done is used the trucks weight and brakes to attempt to budge the rotors just "that much" loose from the axle centers.

The idea is "not" to break the wheel lugs off of course,,,only loosen the rotors just "that much".

Then procede to beat on the rotors like a mad man!

T.

 

[Dark Knight 500]

When a “simple brake job” gets a tad extreme [emoji2357]



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[Elevated 2013]

I’ve dealt with this issue more times than I can count. For your safety leave a lug nut on when you’re pounding on the rotor. I had 1 truck that had a rear rotor that was stuck on so bad that when I beat on the rotor, I literally separated the hat from the rest of the rotor and the hat was still stuck.

Try hitting the sledge on the sides of the hat but you don’t want to take full swings or you could shear off a stud. Make sure to hit all sides of it. Then go back to hitting the disc itself on different sides. If that doesn’t work, the other truck that I have used is to heat up all around the center of the rotor with a torch. Once it’s good and hot soak it with ice cold water and then quickly start hitting the rotor hard with the hammer. The shock of the ice cold water is sometimes enough to break the rust and allow it to separate the rotor from the truck. Like I said before, keep hitting all around the rotor with big swings and hit it between the studs with more control so you don’t damage them. As well as hitting the sides of the hat. All of this will eventually cause the rotor to separate. I’ve seen it take 30 minutes to an hour but I’ve never had 1 not come apart.

If you don’t have a LSD rear differential, you can also spin the rotor and take swings at it from the inside of the truck in 1 spot. Rotate the rotor and hit it again and repeat. You definitely want a lug nut on 1 stud to keep it from flying and hurting someone or damaging something else when it finally breakers free.

Good luck and happy swinging! Ha ha


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[smithwessn]

I had a hell of a time getting the left rear rotor off mine. There was a rust lip around the inside of the hat that was catching on the parking brake shoes, even with the adjuster all the way in. I got it off eventually. Lots of hammering.

The other side slid right off with no problem at all. I had a parking brake lining fall off a shoe on both sides so I had to replace those too. Fun stuff.

 

[autumnwalker]

There isn't really any magic - just brute force and determination. Also - you will trash your ebrake and rotor doing this, so budget for new shoes and rotors (and you should really throw on new pads while you're doing the rotors).

BTW - the dealer quote for changing the ebrake here in Canada was $1,500; the service manual specifies removing the rear axles to access the ebrake.

 

[johnfehr31]

Take some bolts from the inside and tighten them towards the rotar you will suddenly hear a loud bang and its off[emoji23][emoji23]

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[smithwessn]

BTW - the dealer quote for changing the ebrake here in Canada was $1,500; the service manual specifies removing the rear axles to access the ebrake.

I did the job on jack stands, in my driveway, without pulling the axle.

 

[Mike Garvey]

That's a common problem w/rotors. Easiest way is to put long bolts (preferably 1/2 or 13mm) with nuts inside of caliper mount then start to tighten them against rotor. Just be prepared for the Bang! When they break loose. I literally tore chuncks out of rotor on a Ford escape w/10lbs sledgehammer till I found this on line. Ten minutes and they were off AND still turnable. Never heat the center of rotor because heat will move thru axle a fry the grease in axle bearings!

 

[TigreST]

......Never heat the center of rotor because heat will move thru axle a fry the grease in axle bearings!

Holy crap. That’s a lot of heat me thinks.

T.

 

[gofishn]

FYI, the Cog Wheel needs to be turned, in opposite direction, on the other side of the Axle.

I literally had my rotor ulled away and could see my E Brake rigging, Pads etc. beat it all back into place and turned tht cog wheel opposite and viola, rotor pulled of easy peasy

 

[autumnwalker]

I did the job on jack stands, in my driveway, without pulling the axle.

That's the unofficial method