Just wanted to say thanks. As a retired USMC/USAF and not wealthy, you made it possible for me to have breaks. We have a 2014 Ram and now the job is complete. The folks in your town are very lucky to have a good man to work on their vehicles. God Bless.
Thanks! We followed your steps and all went well except removing the rotor. After about 30 minutes of unsuccessful hammering, we found another youtube suggesting we put a bolt thru the back bracket hole, with a nut between the bracket hole and rotor, and then push the rotor out from the back - pushing and then loosening, spinning the rotor and pushing again - around the whole rotor. Only took about 5 minutes to pop it out. Thanks again so much!
Very good video, good tutorial. I used to change my brakes on my own vehicles in the past but I was little nervous about bigger and most expensive truck. It is a good thing I stopped by, I noticed I was making stuff wrong all these years. Thank you!
About to do my 2014 Ram front brakes. You're awesome Jim. Was able to do many other jobs on vehicles with your terrific videos. Keep going! Regards from Calgary Canada!!
Great video I enjoyed watching. Not my first brake job but still a benefit to see how you do it. Your calm demeanor and experienced approach makes for a great video. Thanks again
Great instruction. Very clear and easy to follow. No, "I know everything" stuff either. Only what I need to know. Wish I could come to you for all my other work. Thanks
Thanks Jim! Excellent video! I've never worked on brakes before, but, with your video, I was able to change my brakes on my Ram 1500 with no problem. Thanks again!
Thanks for the video! I watched it twice in the past few weeks before I attempted to replace my front rotors and pads on my 2013 this past weekend. I got stuck on one thing though. With only having the truck on the jack and not being able to safely get under it, I wasn't able to break the bolts on the caliper adapter (bracket) even with my breaker bar (which barely fit inside the wheel well. I called my bro-in-law who's more of a mechanic than I am and he took a look at it and then grabbed a scrap piece of hardwood I had in my garage - we were able to position the breaker bar in such a way that we could use the wood jammed against a solid piece of the frame (crossmember I suppose) and lever it against the breaker bar. We used the same technique but with a different lever point to torgue the bolts when we reinstalled them. Other than that hiccup everything went as I expected thanks to your video. I think the 2nd side only took about 15 minutes start to finish.
Great job.Sometimes the bolt get very rusty . At the shop when that happens I do have a 4 ft pipe to use with the breaker bar That was using your head to figure out how to get it off using leverage..
Thanks! It’s just common sense stuff, but I watched just to be sure there weren’t any tricks I should know about. You’re a really good teacher, slow and thorough, with a voice that reminds me of my HS shop teacher.
Jim, I'd personally relocate just so you could maintain my '15 Ram. I'm in the market to chngng all four rotor/brakes to slotted rotor brake kit, so a very big THANK YOU for this vid; God bless😊👍
Hey Jim,I had not did brakes since the 1990’s and your video was a BIG HELP and wanted to say thank you.Unfortanetly I paid a local shop to do it 10 months ago and my rotors were chewed up and upon doing it myself I noticed they DID NOT pull the slide pins and lube them and they were bone dry on both sides and the pads seized on the rotors and fried them and I’ll never take it to them again.I actually thought I had a bad hub bearing but it was the brakes that were toast.Had to pay twice within a year but now I did it right .No thanks to the local shop .lesson learned and thanks again .
Great video excellent instructions thanks. I k ow you know of this but just want to pass it on to your viewers to use break grease not regular grease. Regular grease will turn to liguid when heated up. Thanks again for the video. Keep up the good work.
I've done about a dozen brake jobs. I appreciate the refresher especially since it was my first time with my 2015 RAM. What was interesting is that the truck has 35K miles on it and the front brakes were pulsing badly. You'd think the pads were shot. When I pull off the tire the pads were not even half worn, but the rotors looked like hell. Might have been able to reuse the pads. Still replaced both rotors and pads following your instructions to the letter. Thanks!!!!
Great post man. I haven't changed brakes since doing a 68 Chrysler back in high school. Military kinda kept me busy. My question is...My Ram is a 4WD. Is there a difference between the one in the video and a 4WD? I couldn't tell if that was a 2 or 4WD you were working on. I'd sure like to get back in the game!
Thanks Jim! I know NOTHING about mechanic work but after watching your video I'm gonna step it up to change the brake pads to my 2014 RAM 1500, im getting a really loud rear squickie noise so im guessing its time for a brake pad change, im guessing the same procedure applies to the rear ones right jim? I really appreciate the advice! Thank you so much and God Bless you Sir!
I finish my brake pad replacement yesterday and I rewatch this video again... I realize the clip I put on did not push to release the pad out... now I have redo it again.... hopefully u guy don’t have to make the same mistake like I did.... this is great video thank you
Jim another great video. Love how you explain the steps and why. My experience with brakes and rotors has been interesting.. BTW, i love the what is this used for videos. I do remember using some of those tools..
Thank you so very much for explaining everything in such great detail. "Don't bust your coconuts..!" This could have been very boring, thanks for your charisma! 😉
Appreciate the video Jim, very informative. I noticed on that Ram they have air suspension.....just a quick side note that it's important to put the truck into tire jack mode to disable the air suspension before starting.
Thanks for the great video, I just had to do the same on a 2010 canyon, it's the worst front brake setup I ever saw. Next truck will be a Ram. That and recurrent computer-related issues made me change my mind...
Hey Jim, thanks for the video. Im about to change the brakes on my 2013 Ram and this has been very helpful, but I have a quick question. What socket sizes did you need for each of the different bolts (caliper, mounting bracket etc.) Want to make sure I have everything I need before I get started.
Great Video, very useful. I'm going to change my rotors on a 2015 Ram 1500 128,000 miles so I hope it's the same. One question is it necessary to to remove brake filler cap while compressing cal. pistons?
I see no changes to 2015 model, I got rotors turn to that bad and brake pad look like they could have went another 100k but brake pedal was pulsating a little on hard braking. after replacing pads and turning rotors no problems. thanks again.
Sir i have a question i just did mines but the pedal is goin donw when i live it press i already drying the system two time and i still have the same problem the truck stops perfect but if i live the feet on the pedal de pedal goes donw.someone toll me that i need to take it to a shop and put the car in a computer so the can take the air out of the system with a computer is this so