How did you remove brake sheilds when you did your BBK?

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Aug 16, 2006 | 01:04 PM
  #1  
Any tips on this?
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Aug 16, 2006 | 01:18 PM
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I used my bicuspids
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Aug 16, 2006 | 02:07 PM
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which BBK?
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Aug 16, 2006 | 02:13 PM
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Im guessing the 300zx caliper+13" cobra rotors one. I cut them off with a sawzall. it worked. you could hammer the **** out of them if you wanted too... seen that too.
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Aug 16, 2006 | 02:20 PM
  #5  
I used pliers and just bent the shield flat
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Aug 16, 2006 | 02:30 PM
  #6  
3-gens invert back so it's alot less trouble. But I used a grinder w/ a cut off wheel. You could also slice slots in there and bend it like beckem
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Aug 16, 2006 | 06:39 PM
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one unbolted, the other just kinda rusted/bent off. that and a dremel halped a bit too.
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Aug 16, 2006 | 07:03 PM
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they are bolted on?
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Aug 16, 2006 | 08:55 PM
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i made a cut/slit where there is an opening in the shield and then banged the shield up and down to enlarge the cut/slit until it was big enough to slide off of the hub
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Aug 16, 2006 | 08:55 PM
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opps double post
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Aug 16, 2006 | 09:17 PM
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One I cut off with tin snips... talk about annoying. Not at all easy and my hands hurt pretty badly afterwards. The other I zipped off with an air chisel the next day at the shop, took all of about 2 minutes that time.
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Aug 17, 2006 | 07:26 AM
  #12  
cut into them, bent them back and completely off. good luck
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Aug 17, 2006 | 08:09 AM
  #13  
Slid them off when I had the hub off. Pretty easy that way. LOL.
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Aug 21, 2006 | 02:42 AM
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Quote: cut into them, bent them back and completely off. good luck
so you aren't running any at all?
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Aug 21, 2006 | 07:04 AM
  #15  
Not the stock ones, they wouldn't clear the AP rotors.... the clearance is too tight.
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Aug 31, 2006 | 08:40 PM
  #16  
didnt have to do anything to them
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Aug 31, 2006 | 09:31 PM
  #17  
i didn't have to cut mine either...
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Aug 31, 2006 | 10:52 PM
  #18  
I just removed my second set the other day. I removed the first set from my black NA car back years ago as stated. this time, I just took off the rotor, and pried a littled bit with a pry bar and screwdriver to deform the metal a little bit, then banged around with a hammer back towards my body, a little banging here and a little prying there and I had them knocked loose. Couple minutes at most. Then it was just a matter of cutting the thinnest part of the metal with tin snips which is easy, then using pliers or channel locks to bend the metal around to get it off the steering knuckle. Probably took 20 minutes total to complete both sides.
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Sep 1, 2006 | 09:05 PM
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Quote: i made a cut/slit where there is an opening in the shield and then banged the shield up and down to enlarge the cut/slit until it was big enough to slide off of the hub
I did the same thing as you. It was much faster than trying to use dremel all the way around.
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Sep 2, 2006 | 10:21 PM
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Quote: I did the same thing as you. It was much faster than trying to use dremel all the way around.

Looks like a good idea
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