doing front disck brake pads

[sickem]

doing pads today any last minute things i should know or be extremely careful about

[SE2000]

What were you planning on doing? Just changing pads or doing the stuff mentioned in the threads a million times?

[sickem]

just pads im in the process of trying to get the caliper off son of a biotch wont let go

[rabidpanda69]

Use a c clamp to compress the piston in, you'll need more space with the thicker pads. Pull off the bolts that are 13 mm not the 12 mm ones, those are just slides, and you'll be turning for a while. Push the old pads out, second verse reverse of the first. MAKE SURE TO PUMP UP THE BRAKES BEFORE PUTTING THE CAR INTO GEAR! I've seen people crash cars within the shop because of this.

[sickem]

i took out both bolts but the caliper wont come off i cant figure it out it will move but its stuck on somehing HELP!

[rabidpanda69]

take a mallet and hit it. It's probably just caught on the edge of the rotor.

[SE2000]

It's only 1 12mm bolt to remove caliper but I would remove both and pull sliders out and clean and lube them with a lithium greese. You only need to remove the largetr bolts if you want to have the rotors turned (a good idea) especially if they are warped

[rabidpanda69]

Well, I just replaced my rotors both times I've done it so I just pulled the 13's out. Which slide unbolts top or bottom?

[bballr4567]

Originally posted by rabidpanda69
take a mallet and hit it. It's probably just caught on the edge of the rotor. Yup. If you havent changed your brakes in a good while there is a lip on the edge of the rotor that the pads have a hard time getting over.

General rule when messing with brakes is you can beat the crap out of them but dont screw with the lines!!! lol jp

[SE2000]

Originally posted by rabidpanda69
Well, I just replaced my rotors both times I've done it so I just pulled the 13's out. Which slide unbolts top or bottom?

The bottom bolt is all that needs to be removed but if you don't pull the slides and lube them, your inside pad will wear quickly and the rotors will more likely warp due to uneven heating. This is assuming your pins are sticking. I had to use a pipe wrench and torch to remove mine.

[sickem]

ok i finished yeah mallet did it. i put some basic ceramics on their im hopeing to eventually change to performance sloteed rotors. and convert the back to disck.... ____------< disck conversion will deffinetly be done soon