Thank you for posting this - I am desperately trying to find someone to do my brakes, an now I know what they are talking about and what I should or shouldn't need so I don't end up being over charged.
The whole job is a piece of cake. Only problem I ran into was the sleeves/bushings near the caliper bolt heads on the calipers. Didn't realize they could come out. Very helpful. Thanks guys.
If you followed the steps in this video you should be fine. You could always take the tire off and check the pads in the caliper to see if they have stayed seated okay.
These wheel bearings were fairly old so we added new ones in. This video will show you how to replace them. If the bearings have fairly low miles on them and are in good shape you can reuse them.
Normally after installing brakes, you will notice a small amount of friction because everything needs to seat itself. The brakes are what is known as a floating caliper so once everything is in its proper place and the brakes are released, the caliper will slide allowing space for the rotor to spin freely.
My haynes manual said something about bending the tabs on the pads around the caliper or something? But I didn't read that till a few days after I did the brakes. Should I worry?
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. We have a Blazer 97 and days after replacing the pads began a sound, that when treading on the brake pedal is removed. We review and there is nothing loose except the new pads. Is there a missing element that serves to hold the pads and do not sound (like tacle-tacle) when driving the car? Something like "no noise" clips? Thank you
You would need to buy new bearings for the new rotor. there may be a race already installed on your new brake rotor. The inner an outer wheel bearing will more than likely be different. 1aauto.com 888-844-3393
Great video guys one thing i thought you were mean't to do and that is put some anti squeal paste on the pads? AM I wrong? Want to make sure before i do the job:)
This was awesome.... Is it normal after installing the new rotors and pads to have a small amount of friction between the pads and the rotor when spinning by hand while on a jack? The tire will rotate about 5 times but can hear a small amount of friction. Im assuming this is ok and brakes need to be broke in.
Hey bud maybe u could help me . I just changed mine out an now the wobbles at about 55mph but it didn't with the old rotors? And I put new national barings in. Its starting to piss me off.
recheck your bearings might have loosened up. you can push on the sidewall of your tire you might hear a little clucking and you will feel if its lose as well
Okay so bought new pads new calipers new rotors nd new bearings, I believe Ive done everything possible also put that lubricant on the back side of the pads cleaned the rotor bled the brakes....then the trouble im getting high pitch squealing as im breaking please help
+steve bigler You should never place grease on the rotors, this action may cause the brakes to fail. You can try to use some anti-squeak lubricant on the back of the brake pads and also the caliper pins. Hope this helps you out.
You do not need to unless the brakes are very hard or really spongy after the brake job is done. If this is the case, here's a video that we did that will show you how to bleed the brakes. Hope this helps you out. How To Bleed air out of brake system alone without a helper
You may also want to check any tabs or metal pieces that may possibly be coming into contact with the brake rotors. Hope this helps you out. 1aauto.com 888-844-3393
+Byron Jones We wouldn't be able to diagnose an issue like that here, you may want to have a local mechanic take a look at it. Thanks for checking us out! 1aau.to/m/Shop-1AAuto-c
