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Separating the rotor from the front hub - How?
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Separating the rotor from the front hub - How?
I drilled out the rivets on my left front rotor, and got the heads knocked off. However my 100,000 + mile 25 year old original rotors are still stuck to the hub.
How have you gotten this one part to become two again?
I am thinking about taking it to a machine shop and having them us a press to push them apart.
Any other and cheaper and easier ideas ???
How have you gotten this one part to become two again?
I am thinking about taking it to a machine shop and having them us a press to push them apart.
Any other and cheaper and easier ideas ???
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Originally Posted by BSeery
I drilled out the rivets on my left front rotor, and got the heads knocked off. However my 100,000 + mile 25 year old original rotors are still stuck to the hub.
How have you gotten this one part to become two again?
I am thinking about taking it to a machine shop and having them us a press to push them apart.
Any other and cheaper and easier ideas ???
How have you gotten this one part to become two again?
I am thinking about taking it to a machine shop and having them us a press to push them apart.
Any other and cheaper and easier ideas ???
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I the snot out of it..... Or was that me.
I set it on the ground with the studs up and used a dead blow hammer and ed it where the hub sticks through the rotor. I also put some junk lug nuts on the studs, turned it over and dropped it from about 1 foot onto the floor to see if that would jar it loose.
the snot out of it..... Or was that me.I set it on the ground with the studs up and used a dead blow hammer and
ed it where the hub sticks through the rotor. I also put some junk lug nuts on the studs, turned it over and dropped it from about 1 foot onto the floor to see if that would jar it loose.
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Originally Posted by BSeery
I drilled out the rivets on my left front rotor, and got the heads knocked off. However my 100,000 + mile 25 year old original rotors are still stuck to the hub.
How have you gotten this one part to become two again?
I am thinking about taking it to a machine shop and having them us a press to push them apart.
Any other and cheaper and easier ideas ???
How have you gotten this one part to become two again?
I am thinking about taking it to a machine shop and having them us a press to push them apart.
Any other and cheaper and easier ideas ???
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Originally Posted by terry82
left front or do you mean left rear .try a little heat on it
A BFH and some more
ing got them apart. I just need to grind down what remains of the rivets.thanks all for the info.
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You drilled the heads off the rivits but did you punch the rest of the rivit through. If not, thats why you can't get it off. Once thats done try taking a block of wood and set it on top of the hub and than hit it with your hammer.
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Originally Posted by Van Steel
You drilled the heads off the rivits but did you punch the rest of the rivit through. If not, thats why you can't get it off. Once thats done try taking a block of wood and set it on top of the hub and than hit it with your hammer.
After drilling the rivets, you need to use a big punch to push the rivets
out. I wouldn't try grinding them flush - but it might work out.
Have fun cleaning those up. I did my front two over this last week.
They are now POR15-ed and tonight I press the new races back in.
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I tried to pound the rivet out last night. I used a punch and the biggest BFH I have and they did not budge. I will see if the machine shop can press them out. If not, I will grind them flush and be done with it. I also have to punch out the old races and put new ones in.
I am also doing new brake lines and I found out that all of the nuts at the end of the hard lines have been rounded off already
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I am also doing new brake lines and I found out that all of the nuts at the end of the hard lines have been rounded off already
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Soak them with penetrating oil, and then use a good drift a little smaller diameter than the rivet.
You need to back up the hub on something solid, preferably steel so the hammer blow is not dissipated by the back up material.
A vice grip is good for removing rounded off brake lines, again soak and re soak with penetrating oil.
After you get them off I would replace the lines with new ones.
You need to back up the hub on something solid, preferably steel so the hammer blow is not dissipated by the back up material.
A vice grip is good for removing rounded off brake lines, again soak and re soak with penetrating oil.
After you get them off I would replace the lines with new ones.
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Originally Posted by busterpelvis
Front rotors are 2 peice ?
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maybe this will help, I had to do a search to find it again 
Gary
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...ht=front+rotor
Garyhttp://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...ht=front+rotor
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I drilled the rivets out, I think with a 5/16" bit and still they wouldn't come out. Turned out that I drilled right down the center of a couple of the rivets and 5/16" was just a little smaller than the rivet diameter! 
Only to leave a little sliver of a drum still inside the rotor. Took a while to see that one. Finally got a punch and sorta chiseled the remaining rivet out. Then they fell right apart.
Only to leave a little sliver of a drum still inside the rotor. Took a while to see that one. Finally got a punch and sorta chiseled the remaining rivet out. Then they fell right apart.
