Re: Brake rotor removal

["Jorel Jackson" <kondor77@hotmail.com>]

>Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:51:33 -0800
>From: T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>
>To: Jorel Jackson <kondor77@hotmail.com>
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Brake rotor removal
>
>Jorel Jackson wrote:
>> 
>> Do you need a special tool to remove front rotors? Was looking 
through a
>> Chiltons book, and it said you did. All I've ever done was put on new
>> brake pads. Will need new rotors soon, and am thinking about doing it
>> myself.
>> 
>> JSJackson '85 Scirocco
>
>
>Bentley, Bentley, Bentley.  Use the other books, which do have some
>value, to augment the 'regular' book.
>
>All I've ever heard was that you liquid wrench the set screw and 
unscrew
>said screw (It likes to get stuck).  The rotor fairly falls off.
>
>
>Review of my Bentley manual (admittedly the one for the Mk1 models) 
says
>you need to:
>
>Pull the pads 1st.
>
>15 mm wrench on two bolts gets the caliper off, leave hose attached and
>hang unit out of the way with a wire to simplify reassembiy.
>
>Remove set screw on disk and pound with _rubber_ mallet if rusted on.
>
>Reinstallation is the reverse. Just leave the mallet out. :)
>
>New disk have a rust inhibitor coating so clean them 1st.
>
>There is a bunch of little things I haven't mention when you are doing
>any brake job, like checking the condition of the rubber components and
>such, so don't fail to get all the details yourself before crashing and
>blaming my advise.
>
>
>TBerk
>

Thanks everybody for the advice, for brake rotors and for the Bently 
manual, the last of which I knew but keep putting off.

JSJackson '85 Scirocco

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