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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
In this video we're going to show you how to replace the front brakes on this 2003 Mercury Mountaineer. We show you on the passenger side, but the driver's side is a similar procedure. The items you'll need for this are new brake pads and rotor kit from 1AAuto.com; a 14, 18 and 19mm socket and ratchet with a piece of pipe for extra leverage; a flat blade screwdriver; a hammer; jack and jack stands; a torque wrench; a large C clamp; brake grease; and a wire brush.
Pry off the hubcap by using a flat blade screwdriver in the small slot on the side. Once you get it started, you can just pull out around the edges. We'll just fast forward as Mike removes those 19mm lug nuts. If you don't have air-powered tools, you want to loosen them while the vehicle is on the ground, raise the vehicle and remove them the rest of the way. Now you can pull the wheel free.
You want to just inspect your brakes. Just take your fingernail and go up and down. You're feeling for any grooves. Small grooves are okay, but anything that really gets your fingernail stuck in there or anything is a little too much. You want to either replace your rotors or turn them down. Do the same thing on the back side. You can see the inner pad here. That's got some pretty good life left on it. Then the outer pad, if you look right here, you see between the metal here and the rotor. There's good life on that. The brakes are actually in really good shape on this, but we're going to take them off and put them back on to show you how to do it.
Now just open up this clip with a flat blade screwdriver. You just have to pry the tab and pull it open. Just pry the harness out of this clip and pull it out of these three. Then you want to remove these two 14mm bolts. We'll just fast forward as Mike does that. Now, using a flat blade screwdriver, just pry right here and that will push the piston in on the caliper and make it easier to pull the caliper off. Do it again down here and pull the caliper free. You want to set it up and out of the way so we're just going to put it up here. Just to make sure it doesn't fall down, use a wire tie to just secure it up there. Now pry out your brake pads. The best way to tell the life left in your pads is this little slot right here is a wear mark, so you can see it pretty much goes away once you have about an eighth of an inch of pads left. Like I said before, these pads have quite a bit of life left on them.
Now remove these two 18mm bolts. You can see he's using a piece of pipe for some extra leverage. When you pull out the last bolt the caliper bracket pulls free. Pull your rotor off.
Take your rotor and push it into place and then replace a lug nut just to hold it there while you reassemble the caliper bracket and caliper. If your new brake pads do not come with any new slides, you'll want to wire brush off the slides. If they do, then you can just pull the old slides off and then clip the new slides into place. Make sure your caliper bolts slide in and out easily. You can see the top one does. This one does not, so we pull it out. You want to just pull this boot off and then clean up the slide. Take some brake grease and just apply it all over the bolt. Slide the boot back on and then slide it back into your caliper bracket. You may have to repeat that two or three times until it slides nicely. Each time you put it in and take it out it will take some more dirt out. Now, using mineral spirits or brake cleaner, just wipe down the rotor.
Now take your caliper bracket, line it up and then just replace those two 18mm bolts and tighten them up. Then torque both of those to 85 foot-pounds.
Next put a little grease on the ear here and here, and some grease here just to keep the squeaking down. These tabs really hold it in place, so you could just take your finger, bend them down a little bit. It helps get in there a little bit. Then take the pads and kind of go in diagonally, so they go up against those ears. Push in. The top went in but the bottom just needs a little more convincing. For the back one, put some grease on the ends and some grease on the outer face. Let's see, just kind of put it in diagonally. I use my hammer just to kind of tap it in. Now remove your wire tie and pull your caliper back down. Then take one of your old brake pads and then just use the large C-clamp to push in those pistons on the caliper. Then just remove the C-clamp and the brake pads when the caliper pistons are pushed all the way in. Then take your caliper and push it back into place over your brake pads. You want to make sure that those slides push down underneath and line up.
Once they're lined up, replace those two 14mm bolts and tighten them up. Then torque both of those to 25 foot-pounds. Then just push this back into those three clips and then back into this bracket and then close that final clip. Wipe down any dirt you may have gotten on your rotor while replacing the caliper and then remove that lug nut, replace your wheel, then replace all the lug nuts and tighten them preliminarily. Then you'd want to lower the vehicle and tighten them the rest of the way, then torque each of these in a crossing pattern to 100 foot-pounds. Now replace your hubcap. Just line it up and hit it back into place.
Whenever you've done any work on your brakes you want to just pump the brake pedal until it firms up. Then you want to do a stopping test from five miles per hour, then 10 miles per hour.
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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20 plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly—that's going to save you time and money. Thank you, and enjoy the video.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the rear brake pads and rotors on this '98 Explorer, same as any '95 to '01 Explorer. We'll also show you how to service the rear. Tools you'll need are a jack and jack stands, 19 millimeter socket and ratchet, hammer, flat blade screwdriver, a large C-clamp, a torque wrench, and 10 millimeter wrench or a socket and ratchet.
I'm going to start by removing the cap. Just use a screwdriver. Pry it in there. Pull the cap off. Then the lug nuts are 19 millimeter. I'm using an impact wrench. If you have to use hand tools, you want to start with your wheel on the ground first. Loosen up the lug nuts. Then raise and secure your vehicle. Then remove the wheel the rest of the way.
If your desire is just to check the brakes, you can see here what you want to do is, there's the rotor. Just make sure they're worn nice and smooth. There's no deep gouges in them or anything. Then actually, you can see right here, this rusty thing in the center is the rotor. You can see it move when you move the wheel. Okay, and then this is one of the brake pads. Then the other brake pad is obviously over here. You can see there's a little space right here. That's actually the wear indicator.
You can see that there's still some pretty good wear left on these rear brakes on this vehicle, but we'll show you how to take them apart and put them back together regardless. To remove your caliper, just two bolts: one here, 10 millimeter, and then one up here. We'll remove those. Once you remove those bolts, you're going to pull on the caliper, and it comes right off like that.
With the caliper off, then to remove the brake shoes, you're actually going to want to pry these shoes up and out like that. If you're putting new pads in, what you want to do is before you take this inside one out, put a large C-clamp on here. Okay, then you're going to force the piston right here. You'll see the piston go back into the caliper. Then the inner shoe just pulls out like that.
To get your rotor off, if you want to replace the rotor, you just spray a little bit of rust penetrant. Obviously, if your rotor's bad, you can spray as much on it as you want. I'm going to reuse this rotor, so I don't want to get the oil all over the place. I'm just putting it on sparingly. If you find that your rotors are stuck on, which oftentimes they are, what I'm going to show you here is you keep the wheel off, and you basically start it up on the jack. Hold the brakes. Set your parking brake, and put the vehicle in forward and reverse, and press the gas a little bit.
Obviously, you want both rear wheels off the ground. You'll see if you look at the studs from the wheel lugs in relation to the disc, you'll see them move as I run the car back and forth. This frees up the rotor. Looking in behind, that lever is your emergency brake lever right there.
What you want to do is use a screwdriver or some type of tool and hit it towards the rear of the vehicle, as you can see me doing here. Okay, and once you've done this, you can sometimes pull the rotor off. Sometimes you'll need to use a hammer to convince it to come off, as you can see me illustrating here.
For this rotor I want to reuse it, so I'm using a piece of wood. That protects the rotor from getting any dents or gouges in it. But if you're replacing your rotors, you just could go ahead and go crazy with the hammer. Although if you free it up using the power of the vehicle and you make sure that that emergency brake lever is knocked back, you should be able to get it off fairly easily.
Okay, so all that emergency brake is a level here that when you press the pedal pulls on this cable. Okay, and then it pulls this lever back. When you pull that lever, it just spreads these shoes out and locks them against the insides of the discs. What you want to do is you want to use some grease and lube up in here, and make sure that this lever is moving freely. What I have is I have a person in the car. I'm going to put some grease on it, and I'm going to ask the person to hit the emergency brake and then release it. Then I'm going to tap it until it is nice and free.
Let's go ahead and press the brake. Okay, when she pressed it, you saw it move. Now release it. Okay, now watch this little ear as I beat on the back of the arm here. It goes back into place. We want that to be able to move freely, so we're just going to keep cycling it. Press the brake. Release it. Then we'll just keep cycling it like this until everything's moving freely. Press the brake. Release it. We'll keep hitting it with rust penetrant until it's all free. Go ahead and press it, and release it. You can see that it now moves independently. Press it again. Release it. That's how you want it to work. Okay, so we're going to cut it off there.
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This part two of two in a two part video about replacing the rear brakes on a Ford Explorer. Please check our other videos for the first part of this video. Go ahead and press it and release it."? You can see now that moves independently. Press again and release it."? That's how you want it to work. If you're inspecting your emergency brake you always want to make sure this, the cable moves. So, have somebody press the brake and watch the cable. Make sure the cable and the arm moves, and the shoe should spread out when that happens. You can adjust your brakes. Down here you see this little star shape. That actually is a slot right here that you reach a screwdriver through and adjust that, although, most of them are, like this one, frozen up. Use a little bit of penetrating oil again. Let it sit for a while to see if you can get that to move so you can adjust that.
As far as these shoes, you can see they look pretty thin, but these are emergency brake shoes. Really all they do is hold the car in place they don't really do any braking, so they don't need much pad. There's almost never a reason to replace your shoes, just a matter of making sure everything's working freely and they're providing the emergency brake function. If you did want to replace them, these clips here you push down. You can see this little tab right here. You push those clips down on each side, and removed these springs, and then this shoe would basically come apart and off. To put them back together, I'm just going to show you parts from 1A Auto, they're going to go on just like the original. Like I said that these brakes from this vehicle are fine. So, I'll put the original stuff back together.
We'll put our disc back on. They press back on when you put the wheel back on and tighten the lug nuts up. We'll put the pad back in, pretty easy. There are three keys. Make sure they all go inside the piston. Squeeze. Then your outer one slides in. Come on. What you want to do is, you need to pull this slide out some. You want to make sure these slides are in good shape. They need to be nice and free like these are. If they're not, what you want to do, is pull them right out, clean them up, and put a little grease on them. Put them through the hoop, push it back in, pull that hoop on this side, and make sure they're sliding back and forth well. Another important thing to do, is . there's some stainless steel slides here that the brake shoes slide on . make sure you use a wire brush and clean those up. There's also one here. This one is actually broken, so I'll have to clean it up and put in on there before I put the disc together.
On these slides I just put a little tiny bit of grease. Put this one up and kind of hold on to it. Push that and slide back. Push it down and on. Put our 10mm bolts back in. You can tighten it up probably to about 20 foot-pounds. Tighten them up, but you don't have to wrench them really tight. Then we'll put the wheel back on, and we want to make sure before you road test the car, you pump the brake a bunch of times. When you move this cylinder back into itself it needs time to get the fluid back in there and fill itself back up. So, before you road test, pump the brakes a bunch of times, and then do a slow stop from like five miles an hour and make sure everything is working. Now I'll tighten these up to about, usually, 90 foot-pounds. Use the star pattern.
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