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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 do a front brake job on this 2000 Lincoln Town Car. We actually found that the brakes on this care were in okay shape, so we just show you how to take them apart and put them back on. Tools you'll need are a 1/2 inch, 13/16 inch, and 19mm sockets with ratchet and extension. You may want a breaker bar or piece of pipe, if you need some extra leverage on some of the larger bolt sand a large C-clamp, a torque wrench and a wire brush and the sizes may vary per vehicle.
Okay, you want to start off, remove your center cap. If you're using hand tools, you'll want to loosen your lug nuts while the wheel's on the ground first then raise the car with the jack, secure it with the jack stand and then remove your lug nuts. I have the benefit of air tools; these are 13/16 lug nuts. Here I'll just fast forward removing those lug nuts and then removing the wheel and tire.
Either by using this method or turning the steering wheel, you want to turn it so you can get easier access to the back of the brake caliper.
Okay, next you want to check the condition of the brakes. This actually looks like it's got fairly new rotors on it. You take your hand and your fingernail and run it down kind of the back side against the rotor and just feel for any deep gouges or grooves or anything. Same thing on the back side, run your fingernail, feel for any gouges or grooves. It looks pretty new like I said. Even the pads on this vehicle look like they're pretty good shape. This is the pad right next to the rotor. It has some good life on the outside and then the one here, you can see . see the rotor as I turn it, snd the pad's right next to it? It has some good life on the inside. You do want to check both sides. It could be one side's fine, the other side could be worn out more and you always want to replace brakes in pairs. When I say check both sides that's meaning, the driver side brakes and the passenger side brakes, not just the brake pads on both sides of the rotor. You want to make sure that you check both your driver side front brakes and you passenger side front brakes for wear and then replace if any of them are a problem. Even though it looks like these are pretty good, I'm just going to take them apart and put them back together to show you how to do it.
To remove your caliper, you are going to want to undo two bolts, one here and then one up here. Okay, these bolts are 1/2 inch in size. I'm going got use an air wrench, it should come off pretty easily, they shouldn't be that tight. I can't get my impact wrench on the top, so I'll use it hand wrench. Now what you'll want to do is pull the caliper towards you some and then it comes right up and off. Stick it right up into here, so it's out of the way. The pads very easily they just pull right out of keepers.
In order to get the rotor off, you'll need to remove this bracket. To remove the bracket you'll need to remove two large bolts, one here and then one up here. These bolts are 18mm. You'll either want a breaker bar or if you don't have a breaker bar or you don't have a breaker bar, take the ratchet and use a piece of pipe. That gets you a little more leverage. Pull easy on the pipe; don't give it a lot of force. And you'll be able to break them loose pretty easy. Get the bolts out, the bracket comes off.
One thing you'll want to do before you put new pads in, take a wire brush, clean off these stainless steel slides. Okay, now the brake rotor comes right off. Here's a new rotor from 1A Auto. This car doesn't really need it, but just to show you, it fits right on there. Back to the old rotor, I like to put the rotor on and I just like to take a lug nut. Now the bracket: you want to make sure that these bolts are sliding in and out easily. Okay, the bolt goes through the steering knuckle then to the bracket. Now on these bolts I got my torque wrench set to 90 foot pounds.
Okay, now you've got to take your old inner brake pad, pull your caliper down, put our brake pad in here, so you're going to take a large C-clamp and what you're doing is forcing your pistons back into the caliper. Okay, so tighten up the clamp, pistons go all the way back in and this is obviously, especially needed when you're putting new brake pads in, because the brake pads are thicker and this is how the system adjusts for those thicker brake pads, the pistons come out some. Now our pads are very easy to install, just put them into place, the caliper will go right down on them. You might have to push these bolts in a little bit to get the caliper down into place. Our 1/2 inch bolts. For these bolts, I'm going to set my torque wrench to 20 foot pounds and you're going to say well, that doesn't seem like a lot. It's not. All these bolts do is hold the caliper in place and this big bracket here is what takes all the braking pressure. Okay, just speed up through torquing that upper bolt on and then I'm just turning the wheels back and taking that lug nut off.
Okay, now we'll keep the pace as I put the wheel back on, start the lug nuts by hand then I use my impact wrench to just tighten them preliminarily, then with the vehicle back on the ground, I use a torque wrench, tighten them to 100 foot pounds using a star pattern and then put the center cap back on.
Now very important, you want to pump your brakes a bunch of times before you use your vehicle and reset those pistons in the caliper. You pump your brakes until it gets nice and firm again.
We hope this helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the Internet and in person.
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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 service and replace the front brakes on this 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis. We're going to show you, obviously, the passenger's side; the driver's side is the same and you want to always do the brakes both sides whenever you're doing them. This is the same for any '98 to '02 Marquis, even the same for the later as well as the Ford Crown Victoria. Tools you'll need are: you'll need a new pad and rotor set from 1AAuto.com, as well as jack and jack stands, 13, 18 and 21mm sockets with ratchet and extension. Obviously, your tire iron can substitute for the 21mm. You'll need a breaker bar or a pipe for extra leverage, large screwdriver, wire brush, torque wrench, and a large C-clamp.
Start out by removing the wheel cover. You pry off the center cap. Then, there should be a key somewhere in your car in the glove compartment. Remove the center nut and then pry the wheel cover off. If you don't have air tools, you'll want to loosen the lug nuts with the wheel on the ground and then raise and support the vehicle and remove them. I'm going to fast forward here as I just remove those lug nuts, set aside that bracket that holds the hub cap and take the wheel and tire off.
Now, we can check the condition of the brakes. You can see I turned the wheels so there's easy access to the back of the caliper. To check the condition of your disks, run the back of your finger along the disk. Small light grooves are okay. If you feel a ridge at the top, it's either a sign that you want to have your brake rotor turned or get a replacement from 1A Auto. The outside pad looks like it's got some fair life left. You can see here's the metal pad and then the pad itself against the rotor. The inside pad, if we look through here, we see, that's the metal pad then the pad itself and then the rotor. The inside pad is pretty thin. It's in need of replacement.
What you're going to do is remove this bolt and this bolt first. These bolts are 13mm and they should come apart fairly easily. I'm just going to speed it up as I remove the lower bolt and then I remove the upper bolt. With those bolts off, take a screwdriver, put it right under here, pry between your caliper and the caliper bracket and bring the caliper up and off. Actually bring it up in here, just for the time being. Your shoes you just pry and pull right out. There's a line right down the middle here. That's actually the wear mark. It indicates that this outer pad, like I said, has got a little bit of life left, but this inner pad is pretty much at the end of its life.
Now you'll want to remove two larger bolts: one here and one down here. These bolts are 18mm and you're either going to want to use your breaker bar or, if all you have is a ratchet, put your ratchet on here and a piece of pipe. Put the pipe on the ratchet and then pull nice and easy until the bolt starts breaking loose. I'll fast forward, again, as I loosen up that bolt, as well as loosen up the top bolt, and then remove them both. Once that bracket is off, rotor comes right off.
Here's the new rotor from 1A Auto. It goes right on. I just put a lug nut on just to hold things in place. Before you reinstall this caliper bracket, you want to use a wire brush and just clean off these stainless steel slides where the calipers go. The other thing on this is you want to make sure that these slide in and out freely, because that's actually what your caliper slides on. Put this between the steering knuckle and the rotor, take your bolt, push it in from the outside and kind of push it towards the bracket and start turning it clockwise to get it to go in. Get one started, put the other one in and get that started. I'm just going to speed up here as I use socket and ratchet to preliminarily tighten those bolts. Now, tighten and torque these bolts to 90 foot-pounds.
Now, you're going to bring your caliper back down and you're going to want to force your pistons back into the caliper. Take your old brake shoe, put it in there and then you want a large C-clamp. Try and get it as close to the middle as you can and, as you tighten it up slowly, it forces the pistons back into the caliper. Here are the new pads from 1A Auto. The little notches go up actually. Put them in. Push it into place. Put it in and into place. Now on the caliper, you might have to push the slides in a little bit. Put the caliper down, push that in, squeeze this one in and down into place. Now, these bolts that hold the calipers in place go in. Push it in and start turning. Push it in and start turning. Speed up the film here, again, as, again, I just preliminarily tighten those bolts. Here I use a torque wrench and you want to make sure that these are tightened to anywhere between about 15 and 16 foot-pounds.
Straighten the wheels and then remove the lug nut. Put your wheel and tire back on. Start all the lug nuts with the little bracket for the wheel cover and then just preliminarily tighten them with the impact wrench or your socket and ratchet. With the wheel on the ground use a torque wrench and tighten them to about 100 foot pounds, using a star pattern. Then put your wheel cover back in place, put the center safety bolt back in, tighten it up, and make sure it's all on there good.
Always make sure you put your key back in the glove compartment and then whenever you've done work on the brakes, make sure you pump up your brakes, and get the pedal nice and hard before you road test the vehicle. Then, when you road test do a couple of stops. Actually, before you road test, stop from like 5 and 10 miles an hour, make sure the brakes are working properly before you road test.
We hope this video helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the Internet and in person.
