#1: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! ***SORTED*** Author: alyoung, Location: ScotlandPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:40 am ---- Trying to change my front brake discs on my 1.9D, got the calipers and locking screws off no problem but the discs are seized, unbelieveably.
I've tried WD-40, Freeze Spray and heating the disc but they won't even budge. I'm pretty sure the problem is between the mating faces of the hub and the internal circumference of the discs.
I've battered them severely with a hammer and they haven't moved.
Any other ideas/solutions that I'm missing?
Thanks.
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#2: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:45 am ---- Grinder, cut a slot in to the disc & a nice big wack with your chisel will soon break the disc free
#3: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: alyoung, Location: ScotlandPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:48 am ----
MrBSI wrote:
Grinder, cut a slot in to the disc & a nice big wack with your chisel will soon break the disc free
Grind from the edge -down?
#4: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:49 am ----
alyoung wrote:
MrBSI wrote:
Grinder, cut a slot in to the disc & a nice big wack with your chisel will soon break the disc free
Grind from the edge -down?
Yes, splits the disc, be carefull that you only cut in to the disc!
#5: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: 00budham00, Location: IpsPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:50 am ---- Bigger hammer
#6: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: alyoung, Location: ScotlandPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:51 am ----
00budham00 wrote:
Bigger hammer
Trust me...tried that, bits of disc everywhere!
#7: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: Addaz, Location: SuffolkPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:52 am ---- Sledge hammer
Or lees d**k
Either works well
#8: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: MrBSI, Location: What's it to you? ? ?Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:52 am ----
Addaz wrote:
Sledge hammer
Or lees d**k
Either works well
He is still on holdiay
#9: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: alyoung, Location: ScotlandPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:53 am ----
Addaz wrote:
Sledge hammer
Or lees d**k
Either works well
Hard to do that lying on your side with the car on axle stands...with the Sledge Hammer, that is
#10: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: LilLew, Location: PlymouthPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:54 am ---- if i am correct try a sliding hammer on the back of the disc
#11: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: ExoVyper, Location: Waiting for the tugboats to push me into port (Whitehaven)Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:55 am ---- when ever this used to happen to us at the garage the solution was hit it that hart you split it in two as after all.... it's not tlike you were putting them on again xD
#12: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: glenpring, Location: KENTPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:04 am ---- could you not drill the holes a bit bigger then put every thing back on and drive a little then slam your brakes on?
#13: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: Big_Rich180, Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:20 am ----
glenpring wrote:
could you not drill the holes a bit bigger then put every thing back on and drive a little then slam your brakes on?
Always got safety in mind
#14: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: MrrNoName, Location: UKPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:22 am ----
glenpring wrote:
could you not drill the holes a bit bigger then put every thing back on and drive a little then slam your brakes on?
LOL
#15: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: glenpring, Location: KENTPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:38 am ----
Big_Rich180 wrote:
glenpring wrote:
could you not drill the holes a bit bigger then put every thing back on and drive a little then slam your brakes on?
Always got safety in mind
just a thought lol if you do do that could you video it an put it on youtube lol
#16: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: gazza82, Location: South BucksPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:20 am ---- I've had some reluctant ones but usually a few well placed whacks with a rubber mallet from the back as you turn the disc bit by bit works ... had to do this on the 206CC recently that probably hadn't seen new rear brakes since it was built in 2001!!! Fronts stuck a bit but no way were they as hard to get off.
When you get them off, a good clean up with a wirebrush in an electric drill and a good coating of copperslip/copper grease before the new discs go back on.
Also had you tried a proper penetrating fluid??? .. not WD40, that's a lubricant ... but something like Plusgas. Getting it between the back of the disc and the hub face is the problem though.
Are you sure you've got both small disc mounting screws out?
#17: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: dafdavies, Location: LLandysulPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:29 am ---- Couldn't u use pullers?
#18: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! Author: alyoung, Location: ScotlandPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:48 pm ---- Thanks to all you guys but the Grinder method did it in a feww minutes and then a few blows with the hammer and they were off.
Next time I wouldn't even bother with heat?lubricant/freeze spray etc...Grinder every time!!!!!
#19: Re: Seized like you wouldn't believe!! ***SORTED*** Author: ExoVyper, Location: Waiting for the tugboats to push me into port (Whitehaven)Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:21 pm ---- when you put your new ones one lots of copper grease on the hub where it conencts and you'll never have this problem ever again
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