Need Rotor help!!

[Renegade79]

I'm doing the brakes on my 79 CJ5. i got new rotors and after romoving the locking hub and getting the old rotor off, i don't understand how to get the hub assembly the the locking hubs bolt to off of the old rotor! Is it all one piece? thanks

 

[Junkpile]

The factory service manual for 1979 states: "The hub and rotor are cast as a single unit." and "The hub and rotor are serviced as an assembly only. If either section is damaged, replace the complete assembly."

However...
I might be wrong but it seems like I have done this. I think I have swapped the hub bodies from an older set of the thicker rotors to the newer thinner style so I could run the six bolt hubs on a newer CJ. I think you can actually seperate them by just pressing out the wheel studs.

 

[jay79cj7]

I did the front brakes on my 79 CJ-7 about a little over a year ago. I can tell you that mine were not one unit. Do yourself a favor and by a Haynes manual for 15 bucks. Its the best investment you could make in your CJ. If I remember correctly, you have to take the locking hub off. Then the nuts and washers on the axle shaft. Then the whole hub/rotor assembly will slide off. The hub and rotor are held together by the wheel studs. Bang them out and put it all back together again. I am sure I missed something in there, but that's the basic sequence... But like I said, pick up the Haynes manual. Its worth its weight in gold.

 

[Renegade79]

Thanks for the intel. I had to pound out the hub bolts, but they were in super tight. The Haynes shows them as a one piece unit.