Removing rear discs

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:26 pm

Must be a piece of p*ss surely ?

Anyone want to help? Jon ? Steve Weegie ?

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:27 pm

If they're anything like my fronts, you'll need a good sledgehammer to get them off!

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:38 pm

Sledgehammer??!?? More like semtex!

Donkey, i've got a set of lightly used ones if you're looking for some? Might need a light skim to be serviceable....

We finally got finished around 1am, one person using the weapons of mass destruction while the other was keeping a lookout for panda cars waiting to serve us a noise ASBO.

Brakes work a bit better today though - pad material grips the disc much better than the backing plate did

Looks like i owe a lot of people beer and drill bits now

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:42 pm

WTF were you lot doing??

I hope you copper slipped the new disc/hub area so it'll come off next time...

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:49 pm

steve_weegie wrote:Sledgehammer??!?? More like semtex!

Donkey, i've got a set of lightly used ones if you're looking for some? Might need a light skim to be serviceable....

We finally got finished around 1am, one person using the weapons of mass destruction while the other was keeping a lookout for panda cars waiting to serve us a noise ASBO.

Brakes work a bit better today though - pad material grips the disc much better than the backing plate did

Looks like i owe a lot of people beer and drill bits now

Sorry i had to leave so early but as my only contribution was to drink dom's coffee and say "ooh that looks difficult" i didn't think i'd be missed !

Glad you eventually got it sorted

(for those not aware of how f*cked his discs were, i was checking for a lip and declared "i've seen worse" before i was told the discs used to have grooves in them

)

VXJON · Post by **VXJON** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:54 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:WTF were you lot doing??

I hope you copper slipped the new disc/hub area so it'll come off next time...

Nope that would have been too easy

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:31 pm

hiscot · Post by **hiscot** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:59 pm

boiling water ( not kettle but boiling ) slowly poured over will help break the bond beware they will be hot
becarefull as using a hammer excessivly can dammage the rack and bearings ect the rack has a wee plastic cup thats easily broken

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:19 pm

It was the wee hex head disc retaining bolt that was the (main) problem.... I'm convinced its made from some kind of krytonite derivitive!

Had to drill it out. Swearing was involved. Angle grinders came later!