Front Brake rotor replacement on 92 F150

I just did tht on my 89 full size bronco. exactly the same.

you should then have the rotors pressed off by pressing the lug bolts out. any good machine shop will do it and press the lug bolts back in after slipping the new rotors in place. however you can do as i have done many times and just use a 4 0r 5 lb brass hammer (8.00) or a heavt 5 to 8 lb sledge and just place the hub rear side down on a solid surface and smack each lug nut out.(usually prettyeasy) then slip the new rotors in place and turning the hub outside down on a solid surface, just smack the lugs back in through th holes in the new rotors.pound them until the rotors are seated all the way. usually a 30 minute job to do both sides. caution , when using a steel sledge hammer, you could chip off a piece of flying steel. USE GLASSES. john

The choice is up to you, but using a steel sledge could bugger up the threads on the studs. Drop the $$ on a brass hammer or at least a large brass drift. The only thing you'll bugger up then is the face of the hammer or the end of the drift.

A 2x4 with a hole large enough for the stud to slip in to drilled on its edge will work great for driving the studs back in. (I call this piece of wood Special Service Tool EIEIO)

By all means USE SAFETY GLASSES!! You *WILL* have chunks of brass pop off at some point - might not be this particular job, but it'll happen.

Thanks.

My Haynes manual describes to remove the locking bolts behind the hubs by using a special Ford ratchet tool and a torque wrench. The description is kind of hard to follow. Then you use a special pulling tool to pull off the rotors.