Help! How to change rotors!

95justang · 09-16-2002

I'm 18 and just getting started with cars

. I know the basics, but need help with this. I hear it is easy, but does anyone have a step-by-step guide or know where I could get one. My rotors are warped and my brakes a starting to squill so I went out and bought new rotors and pads. Any help would be greatly appreciated

View My Profile! · 09-16-2002

Pull the wheel off. You'll see two bolts on the caliper. Pull those out. Pull the caliper off. Now you'll see the bracket that the caliper attaches to. On the back of that, there's two bolts. Pull those out and remove the bracket. Now slide the old rotor off and the new one on. Reverse for assembly.

95justang · 09-16-2002

Well, I guess that was easy. Now I feel stupid

Thanks for your help. I'll drive to my dad's house tomorrow and see if it is as easy as it seems

Vortex · 09-16-2002

Unless my memory eludes me, which its been known to do, you dont have to remove the caliper bracket, just the caliper.. and they are either torx or allen head on the caliper bolts.. most likely allen head.

View My Profile! · 09-16-2002

The front caliper bolts are torx head...T48 I believe. If you can get a rotor off w/o removing the caliper bracket, you're a better man than I am.

AirbornePB · 09-17-2002

Yeah they are torx bits