Brakes.

[94' SHO]

Mods you can move this if you want, it does not belong here but i feel/think that more people click in here...

Well a while back i posted about my brake pads falling off and chipping my rotor...well today i bought the parts and jacked up the car and took the wheel off and everything, well i slap my self in the head (what am i doing i dont have any tools) i was just wondering if anyone on here knew what tools i'd need to go about this project...

 

[luigisho]

Front or rear brakes?
Socket set. A set of torx bits for the front, wrenches for the rear. Caliper tool for the rear, large c-clamp and a small block of wood for the front calipers.

 

[94' SHO]

These would be for the front drivers side. anyone have directions on how to do this?

 

[luigisho]

Make sure both sides are even regarding rotor and pads. They should be replaced at the same time.

Pull the wheel.
Get a torx bit (T40?) and a ratchet and remove the caliper locating pins from the caliper bracket.
Rotate the caliper off the rotor and use a piece of wire to hang the caliper out of the way --keeping the brake line from supporting the weight of the caliper.
Toss the old pads.
Remove the rotor if you are going to replace it. If it's stubborn, use a hammer and a block of wood to loosen or a small torch works well. It just slides off- so if it gives you trouble keep at it-- there's nothing you're missing.

Take the c-clamp and a block of wood to depress the piston back into the bore.

Replace rotor if necessary.

position inner and outer brake pads on either side of the caliper and rotate back into position.

Reinstall caliper pins. You might want some silicone grease for the pins.

Ta-da you da man.

You may have to remove some powersteering fluid from the reservoir so when you push the piston back in it doesn't over flow.

How's that for off the top of my head?

<small>[ November 06, 2003, 10:45 PM: Message edited by: luigisho ]</small>

 

[Mr Anonymous]

Disregard the mentions above for the Torx bit. Having a '94 you won't need it.

You might want to go to Sears and look at one of the "mechanic's" tool sets they sell for anywhere from about $40-$1300, and find one with a nice selection of 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" drive sockets in SAE and metric (you'll need all metric for the SHO) which will give you a nice basic set of tools for working on your car (as well as a number of other things around the house that might come up). I have one of their ~120 piece sets that I paid about $80 for and use it just about every day. It has probably about 90% of the tools I need on a regular basis. (And, any time I've broken one of the tools, there's been no hassle exchanging them for another with their lifetime guarantee.)

 

[94' SHO]

Aww, finaly got it done thanks to the help of my friend ryan. today we did this up at the school. i did about half the work and ryan did half. he pretty much showed me how to do and i did it also. Then i had to bleed the system, that was kinda fun actually, now that i know how to do it...well i'm happy i got the sho back it's been about 2 weeks now that i havn't drove it..and ******** those second's sound so sexy...vrooomm (like the mazda) comercial...zooom zooom zooomm......lol..thanks for you help guys.