# Anyone ever taken the rotors off a Toyota 4x4?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/anyone-ever-taken-the-rotors-off-a-toyota-4x4/10803>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [February 18, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anyone-ever-taken-the-rotors-off-a-toyota-4x4/10803 "2008-02-18T00:30:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GreasyJack)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/anyone-ever-taken-the-rotors-off-a-toyota-4x4/10803/1 "2008-02-18T00:30:00Z")

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I need to pull the rotor/hub assembly off of my '89 Toyota 4x4 pickup. I’ve got it down to the point where there is an enormous nut with a little tabbed washer thingee on the back of it to stop it from spinning. The step-by-steps I’ve been reading say to simply bend the tabs back and “remove the nut” with a picture of someone effortlessly pulling it off with their hands. I have bent the tabs back, and the darn thing won’t move. I tried grabbing it with a big set of vice grips, but it won’t budge.  
  
  
  
 My next step would be to get a huge costly socket and use a breaker bar to get it off, but I don’t think it’s supposed to be on there that tight-- it’s not a spindle nut, it’s a stationary nut that holds the bearings in. Does anyone remember doing this job? Was the big socket necessary? Any other ideas?