Monday, August 18, 2014

Removing severely rusty brake discs

Well, im not big on buying new and expensive cars, loaning money for buying a used car is a form of russian roulette that i don't play. This leads me to always be driving around in throwaway style whip's trying to squeze the most milage out before they can no longer pass the road safety test.

Anyways, my brake system looked like this:


Now im no mechanic, but ey, how hard can it be?

Most stuff about replacing brake parts was found on youtube, but i ran into some trouble when trying to replace the brake discs. 10 years of rust made it impossible to remove the old ones. Luckily the discs are made to be removed by design.

There are two extra holes in the discs. Simply screw any 8mm bolt in there, it will jack the disc straight off! Didn't even have to use a sledgehammer...


New discs, no problems