[Main 9000 Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Re: Nightmare Front Brake job - Rotor Set Screw Strippe Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by Porschephile951 [Email] (#2169) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Porschephile951) on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:00:04 In Reply to: Re: Nightmare Front Brake job - Rotor Set Screw Stripped..., yaofeng, Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:44:28 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

Are you talking about the screw that just holds the rotor in the same position for the lugs and in place when the caliper is off? The one opposite the pin that aligns the wheel?

If that's the case I just drilled that thing out on my 1988 9k and left it out. Many of the cars besides Saabs I've owned don't even have set screws, including the Audi I just got rid of. I've found most extractor tools are generally worthless and just end up breaking inside or fusing themselves to the fastener anyhow.

Why not just get some cutting tools and hack up the rotor until you can get a clean angle on the set screw and cut the head off? Or just try drilling all the area of the head off. Once you get that rotor off you can just spin it out. You're doing the brakes so that rotor is trash anyhow, so you who cares if you destroy it? I don't see at all why the hub needs to be damaged.

I've found that once you give up hope for saving a fastener and possibly the piece it is holding on you can get just about anything off. I've had to cut an entire cast aluminum control arm off of a 944 with a angle and pencil grinders (6 cutting discs required) because a bolt was frozen in the sleeve. Or the CV joint that requried all 6 torx bolt heads be sawed off.

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• Nightmare Front Brake job - Rotor Set Screw Stripped..., ben, Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:22:53
  • For future reference...., David Ingram, Tue, 1 May 2007 06:34:32
    • Now you're talking..., Street, Tue, 1 May 2007 17:34:10
  • Re: Nightmare Front Brake job - Rotor Set Screw Stripped..., yaofeng, Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:44:28
    • Re: Nightmare Front Brake job - Rotor Set Screw Strippe, Porschephile951 , Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:00:04 <-- Viewing This Message
      • Just drill it out and forget it., David Kitchel, Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:04:15
        • Re: Just drill it out and forget it., ben, Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:51:49
          • Re: Just drill it out and forget it., Joe98, Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:03:35
            • Re: Just drill it out and forget it., Scaniac, Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:12:10
    • Re: Nightmare Front Brake job - Rotor Set Screw Stripped..., ben, Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:52:20

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