Defeated...Brake rotor separated from rotor hat during hammering....



This video ultimately helped me to remove four rotors on my daughter's Mazda3. Just bought the gear puller for this job and it worked along with liberal use of 5 lb sledge hammer. Broke the front rotors in pieces, but they all came off. Used anti seize goop to coat everything inside so I don't have to repeat this again anytime soon.
 
This is what happened today as I prepared to do a rotor change after getting all the parts in. A part of this problem seems to be that these are OEM rotors with 100k miles on them in the New England. Here is what I have done..

I have a dead blow hammer, M8 screws, torch, as well as a huge ass pry bar.

The M8 screws didn't do anything and it stripped the threads in the holes in the rotors. I tried to keep heating it with the torch and banging on it with a 4lb deadblow and it hasn't budged one bit. I have been trying to pry the hat against the rotor ring. At this point, I'm about to try to put things back together and having it towed since I'm out of ideas and the vehicle isn't drivable.


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Wowza! I will NOT mess with you
 
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