Removing brake disc?

nickp3003 · Apr 14, 2014

Disco 1 300tdi 1997 manual

Trying to get the discs off the hub there seized on... This is what I've done..

Took the 5 bolts holding the disc off using a long bar, so the disc should come off, I've had it in a bench vice smacking it, bolted it in a wheel on the inside smacking it and trying to lever it with a crow bar, bolted it on the outside of a wheel smacking it with a gert big mallet doing the same.

Any suggestions? I've left it to soak in penetrating wd40 (not the standard blue one! This one says penetrant on it with a yellow lid made by wd40

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Thanks all not the best of starts!!

fanatic · Apr 14, 2014

Beat **** out disc I do

nickp3003 · Apr 14, 2014

Rite oh, it's in the back of my car on a wheel ready to take to work tomorrow, I'll give it a bloody good whacking then!

Thanks fanatic!

Neildisco300 · Apr 14, 2014

Get a good bit of heat on to it with a map/propane gas blow torch that should free it off

nickp3003 · Apr 14, 2014

Ah not a bad idea that, gotta propane blow torch at work so I'll give that a go if wacking fails.

Animal88 · Apr 14, 2014

haven't done mine yet as I haven't had it long but had to do a few fronteras and I have found that some heat works a treat but then at work we have oxycetalene that gets some nice heat into most things :flame: but even a little plumbers blow torch should eventually get enough heat into it

nickp3003 · Apr 14, 2014

Animal88 said:
haven't done mine yet as I haven't had it long but had to do a few fronteras and I have found that some heat works a treat but then at work we have oxycetalene that gets some nice heat into most things :flame: but even a little plumbers blow torch should eventually get enough heat into it

We've got a butane plumbers touch and a bigger blow torch that works off one them 35kg propane bottles, hopefully that will sort it!

fanatic · Apr 14, 2014

nickp3003 said:
Rite oh, it's in the back of my car on a wheel ready to take to work tomorrow, I'll give it a bloody good whacking then!

Thanks fanatic!

The trick is beat the disc and not the hub-I've split discs-but they surrender

nickp3003 · Apr 14, 2014

fanatic said:
The trick is beat the disc and not the hub-I've split discs-but they surrender

Ive been beating the back of the disc is this right? Or do I some how have wack the front?

Chrisw8 · Apr 14, 2014

keep wacking with large hammer, and loads of lube.

I wacked the discs off mine before they came apart !!

SteNova · Apr 15, 2014

cheat... take all the bolts out then stick it back on the car, roll car forward and brake, disk will spin on hub and break the seal

obviously don't do all 4 at once as you will have no brakes at all lol

Mr Noisy · Apr 15, 2014

I rarely have much trouble, just hold the hub and beat around it, but it's easy enough to pull hub off, undo bolts, slot hub back on and tap disc off

Rarely badly stuck just getting a good purchase is the hard part

Nice tip on using the brakes ste, guaranteed to loosen it but it's a bit of faffing about

nickp3003 · Apr 15, 2014

thanks Noisy as you were typing my discs were coming off!

there both off with a lot of whacking and leverage whilst bolted to the outside of a wheel

Removing brake disc?

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RESPECT IS EARNED, BEATINGS ARE FREE ;-)

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RESPECT IS EARNED, BEATINGS ARE FREE ;-)

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Coming in your ears.

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