anyone ie. Guru or others, have pics of a rotor install. It seems pretty easy but I hear that some of the screws can be pretty tough.
thanks

 

There's two screws holding the rotor in place that can be tight. Get an Impact Driver at your local tool store. The impact driver takes bits, so you put a phillips screwdriver bit into it, set it on the screw like you would a screwdriver, and hit it with a hammer. Each time you hit it the impact driver embeds itself deeper onto the screw and at the same time loosens it. It's a really useful tool.

 

Worked fine for all except 1 screw on my car. BANG BANG BANG BANG NOTHING but starting to strip the screw! Eventually a friend of mine had an electric impact wrench. Throw all your weight behind it and let er rip! Eventually came off. Did not replace the screw. They are really only there for show as they are only torqued to I think 7 FPT!!!

Then again.............my rotors went through 3 winters and 40K miles+. So the metal to metal bonding had set in pretty well by then.

 

If you have access to air tools...use them trust me. 2seconds and your done Had mine off in 10 minutes.

 

Make sure you use a number 3 Phillips head bit in your impact driver or air tool to get those screws out. I reinstalled mine with some blue lock-tite. I plan on replacing the phillips screws with allen heads next time I replace the rotors.

 

I suspect Tenblade2001 is looking for complete instructions, start to finish on how to replace rotors. If this is the case, you will need to remove the wheel, and the calipers. Follow the instructions for a brake pad change to do this: https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...threadid=117700

Once the caliper is removed, then the only thing holding the rotor on are the phillips screws you will see on the face of the rotor. Use an impact driver as suggested by the others to remove this screw. Note: these screws make it easy to hold the rotor in place, but are not absolutely essential. So if one does get stripped, it isn't the end of the world. Once the wheel is back on the car and torqued to specification, the rotor is correctly positioned.

When installing the new rotors, you may want to put some anti-sieze compound on these little screws to make it easier to remove the next time.

 

thanks to everyone......slalom44, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks!