Yeh...apartments need to provide a 4 car working garage to their residents free of charge..that would ROCK

Man....$500? NO FRIGGIN WAY!!! The parts cost you a MAX of $50.....the time it takes is about 1-2 hrs...depending on if you have done it before. Next time pay me $300 and i'll do it for you

I know right now the disk brakes are EASY!!! I have done those before. I have yet needed to change my rear drum brakes. I heard those are SLIGHTLY more complicated. But i'm not scared to dive in on those. I have a manual that slightly explains what needs to be done.

NEXT time you MUST change ur own brakes.

Dave

 

I hope it's easy because I'm fixing to replace the rotors and pads on my front brakes.

Sweet.

I just can't figure out what the clamp is supposed to do? I mean the clamp to depress the brake part.

 

Well..overtime the space between the "pad" and the rotor decrease because the pad wears down. You cant just pop the old pad out and slide the new one in because the new one is THICKER than the old one and you need space to align it as well. so what do you do? Use the c clamp to "open" the brake caliper to the max so you have all the room in the world to put in your new pads. Hope that makes sense...

Dave

 

Now it is starting to make sense.

Couple more questions. I got some new AEM ceramic brake pads. I heard they can increase rotor wear drastically however, and I don't want to ruin my new rotors. Is this true and should I be worried?

Lastly, even if I put the new rotors on, according to one website I found, dust and debris can prevent it from resting perfectly flat, and since an offset as low as .003 inches can cause braking pulsation, maybe I should just let a shop who knows what they are doing install them? There's no way I can hope to do it perfect on my own, I was just going to unbolt the old rotor and bolt on the new one. Guess I can't do that?

 

About the ceramic pads...i am not SURE about that extra rotor wear. But i always get "semi-metalic" pads...i guess their "standard"...or i see alot of people using them. Maybe you should post a topic JUST about brake pads..i havent seen one on HAN since the time i've been here and it'll be good idea to help other people too.

and about the rotor installation. If you want....let the shop do it. But i would research more because most likely when you bolt it on...thats where it was MEANT to go. I would bring a sponge and some soapy water with you..clean up where the rotors set so you ensure a FLUSH mount onto your wheel.

Thats what I would do!

A little more about the pad material of the pad. I still have a full set of pads left over because 10 months ago i thought my pads were going bad. So far i have gone almost 15k miles in 1 year and i'm on my original pads(since i bought my car). And i was told they were semi-metalic. The only down side is that they tend to squeal sometimes regardless of how worn they are. Its the property of the pad(semi-metalic).

Hope that helps, and i would post a topic on pad types if i were you. If you dont i will