Rotor replacement

[Tim the Teacher]

Do I need a special tool to do this or is it a fairly easy off/easy on replacement? Any tips on how to make it easier (besides having someone else do it)?

[sammm]

Take off the wheel. Unbolt lower caliper bolt. Flip up caliper. Slide off rotor. Slide on new rotor. Flip down caliper. Tighten bolt.

[Majik]

If the rotor is stuck on, a slight tap from a rubber mallet will help loosen it. If that doesnt there is a threaded hole in the rotor, where it mounts to the hub. It is designed for you to insert a bolt that will push the rotor off of the hub.

[HudsonHawk]

Really should replace the pads too. They become matched to the rotor and could cause unusual wear on the new ones.

[Tim the Teacher]

Bought the front rotors at Napa in McKinney this morning. Someone ordered the sport brake ones and never came to get them so I was extremely lucky. Ordered the rear rotors from Napa two days ago so that should be plenty of time. The rotors were lipped from using the Hawks on a daily basis.
Placing the order for the front and rear brake pads from Trussville this evening. I want to have all new equipment since it's they have 75K on them and a track day is coming up. The Hawks pads I have on now still have enough on them to use on the track day but want to use them only for track days from now on.

[gabkwong]

If I can do it, anyone can. I did my front rotors last year. You worn out your rotors in 75K miles!? You may want to consider paint the hat of the rotor. I masked the disk and sprayed some high temp paint on the hat to keep it look nice and the rust out. I was annal and clean the disk with some paint thinner/acetone to "degrease" the new disks too.

[tailchaser]

Old wisdom says... Always bed new rotors with used pads, new pads with used rotors... YMMV

[HudsonHawk]

Old wisdom says... Always bed new rotors with used pads, new pads with used rotors... YMMV

I always heard it was okay to use new pads with old rotors but if you replaced the rotor you should replace the pads too.

[Tim the Teacher]

Thanks for the tip. Yeah, I was surprised as well at the lip on the rotors. Stephan thought it was the heavy daily use of the racing pads.

[POS Racing]

Did you verify you got the correct rotors many of the parts monkeys have difficulty identifying the big boy brakes on the '01+ NB's.

Been there done that and took them back.....

[Tim the Teacher]

I got the Napa part number from the website and took it in with me so there would be no mistake. Their part number is definitely for the sport brakes as I checked the diameter on the website.

UP 880314 (rears) and UP 880315 (fronts)

46.00 each for fronts and 44.00 each for the rears