I have changed out brake pads before but never swapped out the rotors.

How hard is it change out the rotors on an 03 4Wd?

Thanks

Ron W.

 

Remove front wheel
Unbolt front brake caliper
Remove front rotor, usually you will need a big hammer and block of wood to knock them loose.

 

madhat did a nice writeup, they are super easy, make sure you have some PB blaster and a BFH.

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...ke+replacement

 

Use some anti-seize when yo put them back on. It helps them come off easy in the future

 

Crap that's an old post...

I use a rubber mallet on the edge of the rotors, if that does not do it, I take the big sledge and this the edges by the studs. Not straight on, but on the sides/top/bottom.

 

Thanks guys....for some reason I thought I had to pull the hub off (bearings and stuff) to take the discs off..

Looks like I'min for a 3 beer adventure.

Ron W.

 

I use a 2 or 3 foot piece of 4x6 as a battering ram, works on tires, rotors and few other items we won't talk about. A little more forgiving than the standard BFH even though I did break a rotor on a Saturn once with this approach.

 

Yeah, but usually by this point I'm too craphoused to hold a bfh and a piece of 4x4....

 

There may be some retaining star rings on a couple of the studs, if so remove them first (if it has never been apart).

My elbow still has tendonitis from 3 week ago when I replaced an axle u-joint from swinging that 5 lb sledge, ouch! I finally had to resort to wailing on a big slug of aluminum placed down in the cooling fin gap. The block(s) of wood just didn't hold up. Went through an entire 8' length of 2x4 piece-by-piece before I switch to aluminum. Finally popped off.

 

Not 2x4, 6x6 is best, 4x6 will do, I don't think I would waste my time with 4x4 even. No hammer at all, just use it like the cops do on TV as a battering ram on the rotor surface... I have even thought about putting handles on my hunk, this has always worked for me, but of course YMMV.