Hey guys,

 

I'm not gonna fark around with the car anymore and basically just trying to get it on the road working and running... so time has come to put some new brake pads in....

 

This is what I have been told to do:

1, take wheels off

2, take calipers off

3, Suspend calipers so they don't hang from brake lines

4, unclip clips and remove brake pad

5, use a clamp to put piston in

6, put new pads in

7, redo clips, bolt calipers back on and put wheel on...

 

The end.... or is it? Anything I missed ?

 

If anyone knows how to do it... please tell me.. or even give me a hand pretty please.

Sweet thanks Nick! :) I'll talk to the misses and ask her for some money lol.... I'm not trusted with the finacies in my house hold... if i were maxi would be awesome and I'll be living in a cardboard box!

 

Nick, when are you free... I have Fri night/Sat/Sun .... all other days are workies :)

I'd love to come around with my camera :)

 

sounds like another good morning !

Great, I'll check out some shops and see what I can find...

Though I'm just gonna get cheapies I think... pretty tight with money now..

 

Teddy... please no photos of me :) lol

Brake bleeding doesn't have to be a 2 person job. You can use a bottle and a piece of tube, if you don't have one of those supercheap things.

thats what i do. and a bit of bar to wedge between the seat and the pedal when you have to go around and tighten up the bleeder again

backyard bush mechanics .... I don't know :)

lol what is this place coming to :)

Don't forget to bleed your brakes afterwards or your brakes won't work at all...

 

I'm not overly familiar with the terminology but i was under the impression you only had to do that if the piston didnt remain seated/captive? (ie: normal operating conditions) i havent done this before on my car but ive watched a mate do it to his panel van, gemi & rodeo and in all 3 cases once the pads had been removed the piston did start to move but very slowly in which time he put a clamp on etc etc...he's never once bled his brakes and they work fine on all 3 cars. Is this just a holden thing or totally the wrong thing to do?

As long as you don't get air in the system you don't need to bleed the brakes.

There's never any harm in bleeding your brakes more often than "required", you just go through more brake fluid. But as a general rule, no air in system means no need to bleed. And usually changing pads doesn't get air in the system.

Really??? When i did the pads on my car without bleeding them the fronts didnt do shit. It was like a foot handbrake so maybe I'm doing it wrong??/

hey guys,

 

I'm not to sure with the bleeding or what not... though a friend told me to put clamps on the pistons aswell.... I'll take a bottle of brake fluid I have.. as I don't' own an clamps lol :)

 

Nick, I haven't had a chance yet to buy any pads, I was hoping to buy them on Saturday... I basically have approx 100 bucks total to spend for front and rear pads... so nothing fancy for me :)

 

My plan was to get down to repco on Saturday and buy what ever I can (I'll tell em its for a starlet hehehe so I don't get charged the 300% mark up import rule) and come around more 10:30ish.. ..but tell me your plans for the day cause I don't wanna put you out :)

 

Teddy, If your still coming along with your camera we could do a Brake Change tech for the website, with pics and step by step guide?? what do you think :)

If you're not careful when you change your pads your pistons will slide all the way out and then you'll lose some brake fluid and let air into the system. Then you have to bleed them.

Tom : Great idea - lets do it !

 

*time to learn something new*