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I have just replaced my rear brake rotors and would like to share a tip on removing the rear rotors.
Car: 2008 RX-350, all wheel drive.
In order to remove the rotors, I had to do the following:
1. put the car in neutral (DO make sure you are on a leveled ground and with enough force/blocks to stop the car from rolling)
2. release the parking brake
3. rotate the rotor so that the access hole is at 6 clock postion, then use a flat screw driver to get into the access hole and turn the adjustment gear down until the rotor is freed from the parking brake pads.
Step 1 is necessary or you won't be able to position the access hole at 6 clock position.
I have just replaced my rear brake rotors and would like to share a tip on removing the rear rotors.
Car: 2008 RX-350, all wheel drive.
In order to remove the rotors, I had to do the following:
1. put the car in neutral
2. release the parking brake
3. rotate the rotor so that the access hole is at 6 clock postion, then use a flat screw driver to get into the access hole and turn the adjustment gear down until the rotor is freed from the parking brake pads.
Step 1 is necessary or you won't be able to position the access hole at 6 clock position.
-Wayne
Really good tips and the stuck rear rotor is a real pain .. having done that recently, which direction did you turn the adjustment gear?
From up to down.
DO make sure the car is on a leveled ground and use enough blocks to stop the car from rolling since the transmission is in neutral position.
Excellent, thank you. I have saved the information off for next time.
I, unfortunately, did the BFH approach and got it off that way. I knew something was holding it on (besides being stuck to the hub), but I had already broken part of the parking brake assembly (see highlighted image below with the part fixed), thus I continued to hit it until it came off. I was frustrated and couldn't figure it, so I paid a mobile mechanic to come out; he fixed that in about 5 minutes and then I finished the brake job. Still much cheaper than taking it into a shop, I got some tools out of the deal and I learned a lot.
Excellent, thank you. I have saved the information off for next time.
I, unfortunately, did the BFH approach and got it off that way. I knew something was holding it on (besides being stuck to the hub), but I had already broken part of the parking brake assembly (see highlighted image below with the part fixed), thus I continued to hit it until it came off. I was frustrated and couldn't figure it, so I paid a mobile mechanic to come out; he fixed that in about 5 minutes and then I finished the brake job. Still much cheaper than taking it into a shop, I got some tools out of the deal and I learned a lot.
I bent those pins as well.
When changing the back rotors definitely have some new rear brake hardware on hand...
07-28-17, 08:31 PM
2008 RX-350 Rear rotor removing tips
