taking off the rear rotors, how? Options

[Andason]

I tried taking off the rear rotors but they are held in by something?
what is holding them?

thanks in advance
shawn

[fastgt]

umm when i took mine off, i took off the ebrake and the little plastic ring. Im dont remember too well but im sure there are screw holes where you place a long bolt and tighten it until the rotor pops off. If not beat it with a rubber malet.

[Andason]

how long of a bolt did you use, with limited resources i used like an inch long one

[Batman722]

I kinda had this problem once on my old car. I was replacing the rear rotors and I could not for the life of me get them off. I had to take it some where to get done. Then I figured it out. I had th e-brake on when I was trying to take them off. I screwed up my e-brake after repeatingly prying on the rotor and had to disconnect it after everything was said and done.

so, is your e-brake up ?

if not, it's probably rusted. Just bang the crap out of it

[fastgt]

the bolt u use should be too long is just need to be long enough to hit the metal back behind the rotor just to release, from what im guessing is that ure ebrake has a good hold on ure rotor, if ure ebrake is off beat it with a malet and you should be fine

[macavely]

if you ebrake is up.. dring it down.. then take just bang the top of the rotor with something..

[Andason]

"The rear rotors need to have the e-brake released prior to removal. Shine a flashlight in through the lug holes and slowly rotate the rotor until you see a small star-wheel. This is the adjuster for the e-brake, use a small slotted screwdriver to rotate the wheel, I forget which direction, so you must rotate the rotor after a few clicks. If it stops turning, go the other way. After the new rotors are installed, turn the wheel in the other direction until you feel the e-brake dragging on the rotor, then back off 3-4 clicks."


this might be the thing im looking for

[Negative]

I just removed my rear rotors last weekend to get them surfaced and I didn't have to do any of this (except the ebrake thing). They were a little rusty so I used about an 1" long bolt that I always use for this - The same bolt has worked for my last 3 celicas and none of them had to adjust the ebrake. I did however change the rotors on a MKIII Supra recently and I did have to adjust the ebrake - it was fairly easy except lining the rotor up with the adjustment was kind of a b*tch cause I had to put my face on the floor to do it.