Installing High Performance Brakes on a Custom Car

Summary: Sometimes brakes just stop working even if they initially worked well. And sometimes the brakes were just the wrong type in the first place. Whichever the case, you can always upgrade those old or insufficient brakes with high-performance brakes. Many classic cars have incredible amounts of horse power, but brakes too weak to tame those horses. If you would like to learn how to remove your old, worn out brakes and how to install new high-performance brakes, you can learn for free from our expert mechanic and classic-car restoration specialist.

In this second part of a two-part video series on upgrading brakes, learn how to install custom high-performance brakes on your car from custom car restoration expert Doug Jenkins. Doug and his crew of mechanics and car-restoration experts will demonstrate how to replace worn out and insufficient brakes with new high-performance brakes. They will demonstrate how to remove the brake line from the brake backing, how to remove the brake backing plate, how to replace the wheel seal on a car, how to clean the surface of car brakes, how to replace ball joint dust boots, how to install a new spindle, how to clean the gasket surface of a differential, how to install axles on a car, how to install the retaining pin in the differential, how to apply silicon on the differential opening, how to install the differential cover, how to grease car wheel bearings, how to install the front rotor on a car, how to install brake calipers, how to install the brake hose on new calipers, how to remove an old brake line, how to replace a brake master cylinder, how to weld brake hose brackets, how to install a safety feature for your brakes, and how to refill the differential on your car.