Rear Rotors

[Skylinebrothers]

Ladies & Gents,

I'm new here.

My son & his best mate are having trouble removing the rear rotors on a 92 Skyline two door.

Is there any procedure or hidden part that has to be removed before the rotor can be removed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, John.

[blind_elk]

Rear rotor incorporates the handbrake. Did they engage the handbrake before starting this procedure? Otherwise, they might need to loosen off the handbrake shoes.

Also, I recall sometimes the disk requires pushing off using the threaded 8mm(?) holes in the hat of the rotor.

[Missileman]

Handbrake off, remove calipers, there are a couple of holes in the front face of the disc assemble that are threaded so you can screw a bolt into which pops the disc off the hub, sorry can't remember the thread size.

[niZmO_Man]

Yep, small bolt in the holes on the rotor pops them off easily. Make sure the handbrake is down.

[Skylinebrothers]

Thank you for the very quick replies.

I will pass this information onto them.

[Skylinebrothers]

Just found some new information guys. The car is a R32 gts that has had a 5-stud R33 GTST conversion befopre the car was bought. The rear discs do have the rubber gromet that pops out to adjust the brake shoes. They were adjusted to their loosest. However, these discs did not have the smaller holes to put the bolts in. Does anybody know what these dics may be off and how to get them off? Cheers for the qucik replies guys.

[GTSBoy]

Rubber mallet or plastic ended persuader hammer. Tap gently around the disc to encourage it to move.

[Skylinebrothers]

We did use a mallot to try and persuade the rotors to budge, but without success.

[KiwiRS4T]

I use a steel hammer and whack the sh*t out of them (copper hammer would be better but I don't have one).

Squirt some CRC or WD40 on the studs.

Make sure handbrake is right off.

Check to see there are no retaining screws.

Firstly I hit the centre near the studs inwards quite hard (the wrong way) to try to break the bond.

Then tap around the outside while exerting outward pressure (the same way that you are tapping) with a lever of some sort (large screw driver or pinch bar)

Work your way around and try to rotate the disc from time to time.

Are you quite sure there are no threaded holes to wind a bolt in? We are talking about the outside face here not the inside.

[CrimsonLey]

Any success getting the rotors/discs off?

I found this thread with good info: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/97404-r32-stuck-trying-to-remove-rear-rotor/


When I removed the front rotors/pads, I was told to make sure to break-in the pads (i.e. drive real fast - brake hard, ride the brakes for 5-10 seconds, blah blah blah). Is there a procedure for breaking in rear pads or can I simply install new discs/pads and ride to work the next day?