Rear Rotors

[bluebowtie67]

I have a 99 ford explorer xls and im trying to get the rear rotors off. I removed the brake caliper and backed off the emergency brakes drum brake. Then continued to beat the piss out of it with a hammer. I just wondering if there is anything else i need to do to remove these rotors. any help would be awesome.

[bumpinkicker04]

Originally Posted by bluebowtie67

I have a 99 ford explorer xls and im trying to get the rear rotors off. I removed the brake caliper and backed off the emergency brakes drum brake. Then continued to beat the piss out of it with a hammer. I just wondering if there is anything else i need to do to remove these rotors. any help would be awesome.

On mine I did the same thing you did, plus went through a can of wd-40.
After 2 hours of beating it with the hammer my GF came out and noticed the small clip they put on the lug to hold the rotor on while they are assembling them at the factory.
After i took that off it only took me like 15 minutes to get it off. If you plan on keeping the rotors use any kind of hammer you want. But if you are going to have them machined and use them again then I would use a rubber mallet.Another trick I have learned is to let someone else beat it with the hammer as they will use alot less discretion about how hard they swing the hammer since they don't own the truck. Move around from top to bottom, side to side so you can kind of create a little seesaw effect and it should come off. Let me know how it goes.