Brake disc removal

[rzrz]

Because of vibration in the steering wheel during braking, I want to replace the brake discs. However I cannot get the nuts off that keep the spacer in place. Tried WD40, hitting the wrench with a hammer, heating them and a long piece of pipe for leverage. Nothing worked.
Someone other tips or tricks?

[phillpot]

What nuts?

What spacer?

Can you put a photo up?

[rzrz]

[phillpot]

That's not standard !

Decent socket, long bar and they'll either undo or snap off

[rzrz]

I have the car for 16 years now. The previous owner must have changed it.

[phillpot]

Maybe a local tyre place or garage could have a go with an impact wrench, then just nip them up to drive back home?

[v8s4me]

Blimey! That's a big spacer. As Phillpot says, screw the wheel studs in and jam a long bar between two of them and the ground. Then heave!

[phillpot]

Who ever fitted them may have used threadlock but the heat,if you got them hot enough, should have broken that down?

Do you have the same on the rear or normal studs and wheel nuts?

[DJR 7]

16 years on the same set of discs .... who said TVR's were expensive to run!

An impact driver may help with the nuts.

[DJR 7]

Just a thought .... are they the opposite thread? try undoing them to the right, sounds wrong but I'm pretty sure that the double wheeled
old transit van was opposed thread. Worth a try.

Edited by DJR 7 on Friday 30th September 16:24

[phillpot]

Looks like they are bolted onto the original wheel studs so should be normal right hand thread?

[GreenV8S]

Hard to imagine they're anything other than the standard right hand threads, but I see there are a couple of turns of thread exposed so it should be easy to confirm that.

How much torque have you applied so far?

ETA: The wheel in the picture looks standard - any idea why the spacer is there at all?

[rzrz]

Thread is normal rightsided as far as I can see. Also tried turning them the other way around,also no movement.
Used a 1.5 meter tube for leverage.
Rear wheels don't have spacers.
I will try a garage I think.

[DamianS3]

GreenV8S said:

Hard to imagine they're anything other than the standard right hand threads, but I see there are a couple of turns of thread exposed so it should be easy to confirm that.

How much torque have you applied so far?

ETA: The wheel in the picture looks standard - any idea why the spacer is there at all?

To give it that phat wide stance and fill the arches.. I'm running 25mm on mine to ape the v8s I think it handles a little better this way too.. But could just be me..

Cheers Damian S3

[DamianS3]

rzrz said:

Rear wheels don't have spacers.
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Actually that sounds odd.. Are you running v8s trailing arms.? I have 25mm on all 4 wheels, without this my front track would be wider than the rear and that's just wrong...

Damian S3

[GreenV8S]

DamianS3 said:

To give it that phat wide stance and fill the arches.. I'm running 25mm on mine to ape the v8s I think it handles a little better this way too.. But could just be me..

Cheers Damian S3

On the V8S the hubs are further apart - wheel offset is not increased. Spacing the wheels further out is unlikely to improve the handling and is probably increasing kick-back a bit, but an inch either way isn't the end of the world.

[Top Gear TVR]

Stick a couple of bolts back in, wedge something across them to the floor, apply brut force and ignorance x4

[DamianS3]

GreenV8S said:

On the V8S the hubs are further apart - wheel offset is not increased. Spacing the wheels further out is unlikely to improve the handling and is probably increasing kick-back a bit, but an inch either way isn't the end of the world.

I was originally worried about the scrub radius but according to my ass dyno it feels great..? like you say what's an inch or so between friends..

Damian S3