Brake pad time

[n0c7]

It's time to change my brake pads on my 95 GST. I've actually never done brakes myself. I've seen it done on a handful of cars and I'm pretty sure I can tackle this, and I'm willing to anyway because you have to start somewhere. From what it looks like, I've got disc brakes in the front and drums in the back. I was reading my Haynes manual and it mentioned something about dual-disc brakes and just single-disc brakes I believe, how can I tell the difference? Also, with disc brakes, I assume you have to bleed the system?

 

[punishercb]

It's not that hard at all. With the Haynes manual it's a complete walkthrough. The hardest part I had was breaking the bolt holding the caliper on loose.
Pretty much the steps are: jack car up, take off wheel, open hood and siphon out 2/3 brake fluid out of brake fluid resevoir(I used a turkey baster). Now take a c-clamp and squeeze brake pads against caliper to push the brake piston back(that's why you drained the resevoir), now remove bottom bolt holding caliper and swing it up, remove brake pad and replace.

Good luck, it's really not that hard once you get the wheel off and look at it.

 

[RamenPride]

It's time to change my brake pads on my 95 GST.

From what it looks like, I've got disc brakes in the front and drums in the back.

If you have a GST then you have discs in the rear too. It's not that hard at all, loosen lower pin/bolt, swing caliper up, take old pads out, put new ones in, use channel-locks or c-clamp to push piston in, swing caliper down and replace pin/bolt. Same thing for the rear.

 

[n0c7]

Thanks guys, next weekend project.

 

[Sinclair159]

dont forget about the parking brake in the back.. u'll have to disconect it to swing the caliper up in the back... well at least i did... it isnt that hard to do though... but i think i did something wrong on my brake change cause my rear brakes are squeaking real bad and i dont know why!!??

 

[Defiant]

dont forget about the parking brake in the back.. u'll have to disconect it to swing the caliper up in the back... well at least i did... it isnt that hard to do though... but i think i did something wrong on my brake change cause my rear brakes are squeaking real bad and i dont know why!!??

2Gs don't use the rear pads for the parking brake. They have separate shoes inside the disc, and usually don't need replacement.