rear brakes.....

[Redlin'r]

I am planning on buying some new brake pads and was considering axxis metal masters (I think thats what they are called). I also do not feel like paying $50 to have them installed and the should be fairly easy to replace, but I have never done it before. So I am going to ask you guys to help me out. If you could suggest to me how to go about replacing the pads I would appreciate it.

Thanks!!

 

[BUCK]

Stock El-Cheapo Aftermarket pads last 100K miles back there as long as your Calipers don't freeze up.

 

[dr1665]

Changing the pads is pretty easy. I'm pretty sure that you could get the old ones out with minimal instructions. The hardest part is compressing the piston back into the caliper. I use a little C-clamp to do this. I don't do the most prefessional job of brakes (considering it took me almost 4 years to find out why mine are always warped - rust on the hub), but I can and will replace rear drums with discs here in a couple weeks, so...

 

[BUCK]

The rear Calipers THREAD back into the Caliper due to the Emergency Brake mechanism!

 

[dr1665]

The rear Calipers THREAD back into the Caliper due to the Emergency Brake mechanism!

! I'm sure I would've found that out easily enough when I installed them! Nice to know though.

 

[Blink92Talon]

so if they thread back in when you press the break they thread back out?

 

[Defiant]

No, when you thread them in, the new pads take up the space they were occupying. They push straight out, but the threads keep them from being kicked back by the rotors. It takes about 3/64th of an inch gap to make your brake pedal feel like the firewall's gone, and by the time it occurs to you to try pumping them again, you've already hit what was in front of you.

Meanwhile, changing brake pads is easier than taking off the wheel to get to them. Buy the Haynes or Chiltons and follow the recipe.

 

[Blink92Talon]

Odd thing is on my caliper when I pop it off and put the pad in thats opposite side of the piston in, once the pad is in I have about a flathead screwdriver tip of space between the piston and the pad on the opposite side