Do one side at at time, the other side is a good visual reference if you start to question what you are doing with the spring clips.

I use the neversieze for most of everything, no specific brake grease. But that might be good for the sliders.

I would used loctite blue on the caliper bolts if they felt like they needed more than the factory residual. Loctite red is for things that you don't expect to take apart again.

You need the bolt torque for the main caliper bolts. You need a torque wrench, which you should have for the wheel bolts anyways. The wheel hubs were steel but from 2002 on they are aluminum. I don't know if the bolt heads or torques have changed for that. Nick does not have that info on his web site.

Brake work can be quite dirty. Have some shop cloths on hand. Brake dirt plus grease and neversieze makes for very dirty hands.

Do not pump the petal to the floor when pushing the pistons forward afterwards. This can damage the master cylinder seals. Use more short strokes. Pump the pads to the rotors after doing eash wheel to minimize the chance of the MC reservoir overflowing.

The brakes will feel soft until the pads are bedded in which consolodates the surface of the pads.

Put neversieze between the ID of the rotor and the OD of the centering hub, and between the wheel ID and the same. A light film of neversieze on the rotor and wheel faces will prevent corrosion. A bit on a cloth and rubbed around will leave a light film.

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• Brake Repair Questions - Long, David Bronstein, Mon, 12 May 2003 20:10:25
  • Torx bits, Roger, Tue, 13 May 2003 18:10:44
    • Re: Torx bits, Dean, Wed, 14 May 2003 11:42:15
  • Re: Brake Repair Questions - Long, Greg W, Tue, 13 May 2003 08:41:30
  • Re: Brake Repair Questions - Long, Dean, Tue, 13 May 2003 06:11:39 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Re: Brake Repair Questions - Long, compaqted, Tue, 13 May 2003 05:33:21
    • Mine were torx in rear, hex in front! n/m, Wray, Tue, 13 May 2003 09:06:23
    • Re: Rotor Screw - torx?, Ed NC, Tue, 13 May 2003 05:44:48
      • Re: Rotor Screw - torx?, compaqted, Tue, 13 May 2003 05:54:54
  • Re: Breaker bar (+), Ed NC, Tue, 13 May 2003 05:26:02
  • Big mallet for when the old rotors won't come off (nt), PLC, Tue, 13 May 2003 04:45:05
  • More tools (+), Vlad, Tue, 13 May 2003 04:30:29
    • Re: More tools (+), skhori, Tue, 13 May 2003 06:16:04
      • Re: More tools (+), Dean, Wed, 14 May 2003 11:44:42
  • Re: Brake Repair Questions - Long, CraigU, Tue, 13 May 2003 03:38:43
  • Re: Brake Repair Questions - Long, seemack, Mon, 12 May 2003 22:55:56

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