I have just replaced my rear brake rotors and would like to share a tip on removing the rear rotors.
Car: 2008 RX-350, all wheel drive.
In order to remove the rotors, I had to do the following:
1. put the car in neutral (DO make sure you are on a leveled ground and with enough force/blocks to stop the car from rolling)
2. release the parking brake
3. rotate the rotor so that the access hole is at 6 clock postion, then use a flat screw driver to get into the access hole and turn the adjustment gear down until the rotor is freed from the parking brake pads.
Step 1 is necessary or you won't be able to position the access hole at 6 clock position.

-Wayne

 

Really good tips and the stuck rear rotor is a real pain .. having done that recently, which direction did you turn the adjustment gear?

 

From up to down.
DO make sure the car is on a leveled ground and use enough blocks to stop the car from rolling since the transmission is in neutral position.

 

as in CCW?

 

 

Excellent, thank you. I have saved the information off for next time.

I, unfortunately, did the BFH approach and got it off that way. I knew something was holding it on (besides being stuck to the hub), but I had already broken part of the parking brake assembly (see highlighted image below with the part fixed), thus I continued to hit it until it came off. I was frustrated and couldn't figure it, so I paid a mobile mechanic to come out; he fixed that in about 5 minutes and then I finished the brake job. Still much cheaper than taking it into a shop, I got some tools out of the deal and I learned a lot.

 

I bent those pins as well.

When changing the back rotors definitely have some new rear brake hardware on hand...

 

Remove one of the 12 mm valve cover bolts and screw it into the 2 screw holes on the rotor to pop it off. Put bolt back.