I got lucky when I did mine a few weeks ago, mine were fairly stuck on there but the girlfriend had her '90 prelude brakes disassembled and her caliper bolts (I believe to be anyways ha) fit in and popped the rotors off perfectly. The carriages in the front were a pain though, could only loosen the one bolt on the top for the both of them (elbow grease, no impact at the time) and just took a mallet to hit it down and up ever so far to break the other nut loose.

A tip, after my first brake job.. if you don't have a c-clamp or anything to depress the piston, or pistons, you can reverse your old pads against the piston and squeeze with grips or if you can manage, with your hands.

 

liquid wrench or any loosening solution is your best friend in installations like this for the stuck bolts/nuts

 

Interesting little study: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/for...t/13650/page1/

 

revived an old thread.

Changed my front rotors today to some EBC slotted sport rotors and found this thread and implemented the following techniques.

I did this . . .

. . . and . . .

. . . and it worked like a champ today.

I love the internet

 

The 12mm rad support bolt works perfect to release the rotors.

 

any 12mm will do. i just said #12 back then cause i was having a brain fart moment and couldn't figure out how to describe it.

 

Yeah, I was scratching my head, I don't think a #12 bolt exists.

I don't know if any 12mm bolt will work, I do know that the 12mm bolt that holds the rad support will work.

 

24oz ball peen...lol, j/k

 

i did my fronts what about the rear brakes is it the same as the front?...i plan on instaling ebc gold rotoras and yellow stuff pads on the rear

 

the rear is similar but you don't have to take the whole caliper off, if you just removed the lower guide pin (14mm), you can rotate the piston side of the caliper out of the way to remove the rotor. Inside of that is a basic drum brake, only smaller, inspect it for excessive wear, and get someone to pull the hand brake and make sure it's working properly, and it would not be a bad idea to grease them, if they need it. Also while you are there, you can adjust the shoes if your hand brake has a lot of throw. the little splined thing at the bottom center, you just turn that with a screw driver, do the same number of turns on both sides if you adjust it.