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Jun 7, 2013 | 12:21 PM

fuzzyz

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removing rotors

First I'd like to say thanks for the help given on my steering column.
I'm having a hard time getting the rotors off. I read in the tech tips I need to drill out rivets to remove rotors. Is this true, I'm use to just pulling off the rotor.

Jun 7, 2013 | 12:25 PM

Mike Ward

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Yes it's true and it's also a mistake to remove them in most cases. Research rotor run-out on this site.

Why do you want to do this?

Jun 7, 2013 | 12:39 PM

Easy Mike

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Ward

...Yes it's true and it's also a mistake to remove them in most cases...

Do not pull the rotors unless 100% necessary.

Jun 7, 2013 | 12:41 PM

donyue

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fuzzyz

Yes, the rivets have to be removed in order to remove the original rotors.

As mentioned it is not the best thing to do because the rotors and hubs would have been trued/balanced as complete units from the factory so if you replace the rotors the balancing might be out causing you to require rotor balancing to be done on the car.

With that being said I did replace my rotors without any problems. Use cobalt drill bits to drill the rivets out.

Jun 7, 2013 | 01:09 PM

racerx1

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I removed my rear rotors last weekend. Search "rotor rivets". The below thread pretty much covers it....with nice pics.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...or-rivets.html

Jun 7, 2013 | 02:16 PM

gcusmano74

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Runout on the C2/C3 brakes is very critical.
Don't remove the rotors without a very good reason.
(The rotors on my 172,000 mile car have never been cut).