Help, front disk brakes!

[santamaus]

I recently started converting my brakes over to drilled rotors, higher friction pads, steel lines, etcetera.

Trouble is this--the front hub and disk seem to be well connected, and in fact, seem to split in the middle, as opposed to having the hub be one piece which fits through the disk.

Any thoughts on separating these two pieces without damaging the hub? I could really care less about the disk, as I have a replacement, but the 240z hub seems to be a hard/impossible to find piece, and I can't destroy it with cave man deconstruction techniques in an attempt to get it free.

I also have no garage, and so all repair work must be done inside of a day, so I can reassemble and park it.

Any ideas would be appreciated, either to separate the hub from the disk (I believe they are stock 240 pieces, and they just appear to be one piece--I tried removing the four bolts inside the disk, and needless to say that didn't help), or a source to just get new hubs. VB doesn't list them, and MSA has them as discontinued/limited availability pieces.

[panchovisa]

With the hubs off the car and on your work bench, remove the four bolts from the disk side into the hub (you have already done this).

Place the inside face of hub on your work bench and use a rubber/plastic mallet to hit down on disk. The disk and hub have rusted together and you need to break them loose. Clean the rust off of hub before you put new disk back on.

[panchovisa]

Oh, forgot to tell you that you CAN get new hubs/bearings/seals from Nissan for about $280 each.

[Victor Laury]

I just did this yesterday.

I have a "workmate" style table, that I open enough to pass the hub, to rest the rotor surface against the table top. After removing the four 10mm (14mm wrench) bolts, I cover the rear of the hub with a block of 2X4 and smack it with a 1lb hammer. I keep my other hand under the table to keep the hub from falling.

Doing the rears now. Just found a very contaiminated right rear. Luckily, I have another slave cylinder. Not going to install my new Nismo "Green Stuff" shoes, just to have the ruined by a leaky cylinder!

[santamaus]

Thanks for the replies!

Chris