How to Remove Car Brakes

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Hi my name is Nate McCullough on behalf of Expert Village. In these clips we're going to talk about the proper way to remove and replace a front wheel drive vehicles valve joint. In this clip we're going to talk about removal of the brake hardware, your brake pads, and your caliber bridge. The caliber bridge is this large piece of cash iron right here. Your hardware is going to consist of these medal clips and these return springs and of course your brake pads. You have your outboard and your inboard right there. First and foremost we're going to remove our return springs, just give them a little squeeze. You may or may not have these on your vehicle, this one in particular does of course, going to sit that on our magnetic tray. They're identical the top one can go in the bottom place and the bottom one can go in the top place. Wiggle out our inboard brake pad. It's okay to go ahead and use a flat head screwdriver with very slight outward pressure. You don't want to damage the friction material, this is your friction material right here. You don't want to put nicks or gouges in it that will under mind the integrity of your brake pad. Alright we've got one of our hardware clips. These are called anti - rattle clips. They're made of a hardened steal and it?s what the pads ride on. You can't have the hard steel pad riding on the cast iron of the bridge. The steel will wear the heck out of it so they put these shims in there so it gives it another hard surface to mate too. We're going to pop this upper one off as well, the caliber bridge is going to have an upper and lower mounting bolt. In particular these are seventeen millimeters. I have my craftsman 1/2 inch drive socket wrench and my 17 mil twelve point socket. We want to make sure we got our wrench in the right direction, lefty loosey righty tighty. Put her on there and give her a tug. You're going to have to put a little muscle into these bolts to get them off. It's a good idea to break them both loose before you try and take just one of them out. If were to take just the bottom one out and try to break the top one out it may roll your caliber bridge up and out of the way and it would be really difficult to work on. Okay, once you have the lower and upper caliber bridge bolts broke loose you can go ahead sit down and actually get the work done. So you can see what I'm doing with my right hand index finger is applying a little bit of drag to my socket, no problem with it going this way but if you go to ratchet it, if the bolts loose enough it'll just free wheel on you you see how that is. If you take and apply some drag to it you'll get your ratcheting action, you'll get more of an effective stroke out of your socket wrench. Once they're hand tight you can go ahead and unscrew them and remove your caliber bridge. These here are mounting bolts. Take them, place them in our magnetic tray and slip off the brake rotor. That's the proper way to remove your caliber bridge and brake rotor.

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