Poor brake pads, provided not replaced on age, can section immersed grooves in brake discs, production the brake repair extra costly. Sometimes, the discs can simply be removed and refinished to remove the grooves, on the contrary the discs corner a minimum thickness that must be met. Whether the discs retain grooves that can't be refinished, you want to transform the brake discs, and you practicable exigency to copper the discs on both sides.
Instructions
1. Prepare the van by draining half the brake fluid from the crack cylinder with a siphon and disconnecting the balky battery cable. Lift the vehicle's front edge on jack stands and remove the wheels with a lug wrench. Block the rear wheels to conduct the vehicle from accidentally rolling.
2. Seperate the brake caliper from the CD by removing the upper and lower mounting bolts. Hang the caliper somewhere absent from the CD with a beefy wire--never let the caliper hang by its attached brake hose.
3. Pull the brake pads outside of their shims and clips on the caliper mount, and discard them. Refill the master cylinder to the required level with fresh fluid, then reconnect the battery. Apply the brake pedal multiple times until it feels firm, thus setting the new brakes.
Provided it's stuck, include bolts into two of the extended holes on the CD and tighten them with the wrench to make the disc pop loose.
5. Remove all glaze from the replacement disc by rubbing it in circular motions with sandpaper or an emery cloth. Install the disc onto the threads on the wheel hub.
6. Install the caliper mount onto the brake disc. Remove the shims from the mount and apply an anti-squeal compound to their backing plates before reinstalling them. Install new brake pads into the shims. Connect the caliper back on its mount, compressing the caliper pin into its bore with a C-clamp first.
7. Reconnect the wheels after both brakes have been changed, and lower the car. It is practicable they extremity to be replaced whether the brake disc needs changing. Remove the caliper mount from the CD by removing its bolts.4. Pull the brake CD off of the shove hub.
