Problem solved!
First off, thanks for the help. Sometimes I think we just need to bounce things around to keep the stress level mechanical problems cause down.
Once I removed the wheel, caliper and rotor from the opposite side, it just took a couple of minutes of comparing the e-brake systems to see that I had knocked the lower mount point off the passenger side when I "persuaded" the rotor on the night before. The bottom of the e-brake shoes rest on a fixed metal piece, and in forcing the rotor on, I had knocked one side off. This alone caused the rotor to mount slightly crooked, the rotor to contact the caliper, and the hub seize up. We're talking a matter of 3-4 millimeters! Man it doesn't take much to throw everything into wack.
Lesson is, I should have used less force mounting the rotor, which caused the whole problem in the first place.
Last edited by olddudesrule; 06-29-2013 at 02:24 PM.
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