Fused spacers / rotors
 

My wheel spacers are absolutely fused to my brake rotors! I am assuming that my rotors will be just as bad if I can ever access them. Any good tricks other than a hammer?

Have any encountered this? I am dreading having to go search up a puller that will fit


...no I don't drive it in winter:D

Rubber mallet and a flathead screwdriver always works for me. Slowly chip inbetween them all around the rotor and it will separate.

Suggest trying a wood block first before resorting to screwdriver.

Make sure you use anti-seize b/w spacer/rotor hat upon re-installation (same w/ rotor hat to hub and wheel to spacer, etc.)

Good luck :)

Thanks guys will wrestle with it!!

I wonder if heat would help?

Give 'er **************** with a dead blow hammer, fella.

Yes tried that!!

Douse with PB Blaster overnight and pound away again tomorrow?

Yes did that but .... With wd40....as was running out of borrowed garage time!!

WD40 barely classifies as a lubricating oil...

PB, a penetrating oil, is a completely different class. Try w/ PB and let soak overnight as BS states. I've used PB to release frozen solid brake caliper slide pins, header bolts, exhaust clamps, etc. - all of which I thought were completely toast.

Good luck :)

Heat and PB will do it.

Schedule an auto-X race and a couple days before spray the PB between the too.

Give your brakes an smoking hot workout during the auto-x.

After the racing those should separate without much problem.

The differential heating/cooling cycles with the brakes doing the heating and the wind doing the cooling should cause enough expansion to break them free.

or

Use a bigger hammer, but thats not as fun as an Auto-X.