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How to Replace Front Brakes 2001-06 Dodge Stratus
Created on: 2011-11-07
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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com, your source for quality auto replacement parts and the bets service on the internet. Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and 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 break job on a 2004 Dodge Stratus, the front disk brakes. It ends up, this vehicle has the breaks are in fine shape. We just take them apart, put them back together to show you how to do it. The tools you'll need are jack and jack stands, 18 and 19 millimeter sockets. Also, you can use your lug wrench to get the lugs off on the wheel. You'll need a breaker bar or ratchet with a pipe for extra leverage. A T45 Torx bit, large screwdriver and a large C-clamp. This vehicle has hub caps; some of them will have aluminum wheels. Just a screwdriver, pull that cap off. These lug nuts are 19 millimeters. If you don't have air tools, you'll want to leave the wheel on the ground, loosen the lug nuts first then raise it and secure the vehicle then remove the lug nuts. We'll speed it up here as we remove the lug nuts and then remove the wheel and tire. You can inspect your brakes. Two things you'll want to inspect. The pads as you can see here. You can see that slot right there. That's a wear indicator.
These pads are fairly new on this vehicle. We're just going to show you how to take them off, put them back on and then your rotors, you'll want to check for the width of them as well as how they look. A little bit of rust scale on here, not a big deal. You'll also want to check the back of you panel winding up the disk and you want to feel for any large groves. You're going to feel a lot of small groves like a vinyl record but you shouldn't feel any large groves. If you do, you'll want to replace the rotors. Again, it looks like on this vehicle, your rotor, disk brakes were done pretty recently. Now, to remove the calipers from the bracket, there are two bolts. There's a little dust cap back here. You can see in here there's an Allen bolt. I actually use a T45 Torx bit. It goes right in there. I can get a ratchet on there. I'll speed up as I remove up as I remove those two Allen bolts. You take a good sized screwdriver and put it in and depending on how worn your breaks are, this would be in different place but use a screwdriver and just kind of pry in here and pry out on the caliper and it just kind of helps to loosen things up.
Basically what you're doing is you're pushing this piston back into the caliper. Pull your caliper up and off. You can see the outer pads stayed right there. The inner pad is clipped into my caliper. There's the clip right there. Now, I secured my caliper up here with some wire ties. I'm going to show you, if you wanted to remove and replace your rotor, the next you're going to do is take off this caliper bracket. To do that, you remove two large bolts, this one here and one here. To remove these bolts, you're going to want an 18 millimeter socket and I have a breaker bar here. If you find you can't do it with that, a piece of pipe gives you even more leverage, slow and controlled. If all you have is a ratchet, I recommend using the pipe. It's really no problem getting them off, the breaker bar as well. Remove these. After loosening them up with your breaker bar or ratchet with pipe, I just switch over to my ratchet and I'm removing the bolts the rest of the way. Once those two bolts are out, this bracket comes off. Simply enough, the rotor comes off.
If you want to replace it with a new rotor from 1A Auto, it's going to fit on there exactly as it is. You can also have your rotor's machine. This rotor is in fine shape so I'm going to put it back on. It gives you kind of falls off a little bit. I'll put a lug nut on. Just tighten it up in place. Take your bracket, put it up on the rotor. It bolts in from the back side. Fast forward as I just preliminarily tighten them by hand and then with my ratchet and socket. Here's a torque wrench, 18 millimeter socket and torque it to 95 foot pounds. I'm going to bring my caliper down here again. Put it here like this. Now if your brakes are worn, this piston, watch it come out of your caliper or it will work its way out some, when you use the big screwdriver, you are working the piston back in there. If you didn't get it all the way then, what you'll want to do is use a big C-clamp, put on your caliper. Use a clamp to tighten that. It pushes the piston back in with the caliper. You can remove the clamp. Make sure that your inner pad is all in. These bolts, you want to make sure that they are pushed out. Put our outer pad back on here.
With your outer pad in place and your inner pad in place, make sure, start pushing this on. This retainer should go in there, pull it out and down, push your top in and down. You just kind of push on the caliper a little bit, start the bolts in clockwise. Put some pressure on there and they'll go in. I'll use a torque wrench to tighten these between 15 to 17 foot pounds. Replace the dust caps over those bolts. Fast forward here as I straighten the wheel. Then remove that one lug nut that I put on. Install the wheel and tire again, thread the lug nuts on first by hand then preliminarily tighten them with my impact wrench and then I'll put the vehicle down on the ground and torque them. You'll want to torque these lug nuts to 100 foot pounds. Speed it up again here. Torque them up again to 100 foot pounds and kind of draw a star pattern as you're torqueing them and then reinstall your hub cap. Make sure the brakes are working before your drive it. Pump them up. Do a stop from 5 miles an hour and 10 miles an hour before you take them out on the road.
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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and 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 remove and reinstall the front brakes on this 2004 Dodge Intrepid. This car does not have ABS brakes, so things are a little bit different, but if you have ABS brakes this procedure in this video should be able to get you through it. The tools you'll need are a jack and jack stands; 19mm socket and ratchet or your lug wrench; 10mm socket and ratchet; a large screwdriver, or a small pry bar, or if you can't get a hold of one of those, a large C-clamp; and you'll need a torque wrench to put it back together. If you're just working with hand tools you want to loosen your lug nuts while the wheel's on the ground first, then raise up and support your vehicle. I have the benefit of air tools, so I'm going to use it. We'll fast forward through the rest of removing the wheel here, and we'll use fast forward in this video quite a bit when I'm doing monotonous tasks. Now you want to turn your wheel so you can reach your brakes easily, either by pulling it like this or using the steering wheel.
If you want to check your brakes, you can see, look in here, and you see as I kind of turn the rotor, you can see where the rotor is, and this little hole that you see here is actually the wear indicator. You can see this inside pad has plenty of life left. You can see here, this pad here has plenty of life left as well. We're not even going to change these brakes but I want to show you how to take them apart and put them back together anyways. This piston is pushed out. As your brakes wear, the piston pushes out more. You can actually reset it by sticking a large screwdriver, or a small pry bar like this, in and just prying on the brakes. That does two things for you. It pushes that piston down in there, and it also helps to get your caliper up and off easily. To remove your caliper you're going to remove two 10mm bolts, one there, and one down there. It's easily done with a small ratchet or wrench. Now your caliper comes up and off. Stop the action here for a second. You saw something drop out there. Those are the little slides and you'll see how to reinstall them later in the video. Obviously if you drop anything out you want to keep hold of it. It has the brake pads in it. The inner on, we'll just pull out like so. You probably want to have a screwdriver just to help you pry it right up and out. Hang the caliper up there like that just for now, and really easy, the rotor comes right off if you wanted to replace it or have it turned. This one, even though it's a little rusty looking, just looks like it's from sitting, it's still in good shape.
Even though we're going to put the original brakes back on, just want to show you new parts from 1A Auto. They're going to fit right on there correctly, just like the originals. Real quickly we're back to the original rotor. What I like to do is just put a lug nut on here, just to hold the disc in place while you're putting the brakes together. Before you go to put your calipers back on, you want to make sure that your piston is reset all the way into your caliper. Hopefully, if you pried it out, that's already the case, but if you didn't have something to pry it with, you can use a large C-clamp. Put your old pad back in there, and then use the C-clamp to push that piston back into your caliper. Here's my original pads, new pads from 1A Auto, the original pads still have some good life on them, so we're going to reinstall them, but you can see that the pads from 1A Auto, all the same, all the same brackets and everything. They're going to mount in there correctly. Just want to show you that so you know that when you order from 1A Auto you're going to get the right stuff. The rear pad has that clip on it. Just press it into the caliper, and then the front pad has this kind of butterfly clip on it. You just take it, and kind of pull that clip out a little bit, and then snap it down in there. You've got your pads back into your caliper, and these are the little slides. They actually just kind of hang off of here, so you put the lower one on, and you take your caliper, and make sure that ... I don't know what this is. Make sure that these boots are back on these bolts or these sleeves here.
Then what you want to do is put your pad against it, and push out on your caliper, and seat your- the shoes- or the pads- have little teeth that go right on to that slide. Then you do have to pull it out and put it down on. Then this upper slide, basically you can push your pad up like that, pull your rotor and pad back a little bit, slide underneath, and it goes in just like that. Close up on what that should look like, and then down here what it should look like. Now you take your bolts, put them in the back side, just kind of push on the caliper a little bit. Get them started, get that one started, 10mm. Torque wrench, we're going to use, and we're going to tighten these up to 25 foot-pounds. Now we can remove this lug not. We'll fast forward as I remove that lug nut, and then I'm obviously going to put the wheel and tire back up in place, and what I'm going to use is my ... I'm going to thread the lug nuts on by hand and then use my air ratchet to tighten them preliminarily. Now with the wheel on the ground, and you hawk eyes will notice that the cap was off and now that little center cap is on, that's just because I was shooting two videos at once here, but I'm going to torque the lug nuts to between 90 and 100 foot-pounds. I'm going to use a star pattern, and very important while I'm torqueing these, before you drive your vehicle, make sure you pump the brakes a bunch of times. Then make sure that the brakes hold the car while it's in gear, then do a stop from 5 miles an hour, and then a stop from 10 miles an hour, just to make sure your brakes are working, obviously, before you drive it out on the road. We hope this helps you out.
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Hi, I'm Don 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 disc brakes on this 2004 Chrysler Sebring. It's the same process on the Sebrings from 2001 to 2005, as well as the Dodge Stratuses from the same time. The items you'll need are a new brake pad and rotor kit from 1AAuto.com, flat blade screwdriver, 7mm Allen bit, 18mm and 19mm socket and ratchet with a piece of pipe for leverage, a zip tie or string, large C-clamp, brake cleaner, brake grease, a wire brush and a torque wrench, as well as a jack and jack stands.
You'll want to remove the wheel and tire. If you don't have the benefit of air tools, start with the vehicle on the ground and loosen the lug nuts first, then raise and secure the vehicle, then remove the lug nuts the rest of the way and the wheel and tire.
Now, you want to just turn your wheel so you can have better access to the brakes. You want to inspect your brakes. You see the brake pads here. This one's in pretty good shape, you can look at the outside one from the side here and see what shape it's in. Then your rotor, you want to check for any deep gouges, or it being really rough. Ours is actually in pretty good shape.
To remove the brakes, you want to start off by removing this wire retainer. Now, you see there are these two caps here; you just want to pry these out. Now what you've uncovered is two 7mm Allen wrench bolts and you want to just loosen these up, and we're going to fast forward as Don does this. Take a flat blade screwdriver and separate your outside brake pad from the inside of the caliper. You want to pull that caliper up and off. Then, your outside brake pad just pulls right off. You can pop your inside brake pad out of your caliper piston. Now you want to remove these 7mm Allen wrench slides. You can just pop them out with a flat blade screwdriver. Then using a large C-clamp, you want to press the caliper piston back into place. Now, using a zip tie or string, you want to just secure your caliper up and out of the way.
Now, you want to remove these two 18mm bolts. If they're stuck, you may want to spray some penetrating oil on them, just to help remove them. Then, you can see we use a piece of pipe for some extra leverage. Once those are removed, your caliper bracket comes right off and you can just pull your rotor off too.
You can see the old rotor and brake pads on the right, and the new ones from 1A Auto on the left. You can see everything's identical and it's going to mount and fit exactly the same. Using a wire brush, just clean up your caliper bracket along the slides where the brake pads fit into. You want to clean off your brake caliper slides as well. Then, using some brake cleaner, you want to just wipe down your rotor. Now, you want to just apply some brake grease to your brake caliper slides, as well as the hooks on either end of your brake pads. You also just want to clean up your hub a little bit with a wire brush.
Then, you can put your new rotor into place, as well as your caliper bracket. Then, just replace those bolts. We're just going to fast forward now as Don finishes tightening those up. Then, you want to just torque those bolts to 75 foot-pounds.
Then, you can put your brake pad back into place, put your outside one into place, pull down your caliper, and then, you can push your inside one into the caliper piston. Then you can put your caliper back into place and push your caliper slides back in. Then we're just going to fast forward as he tightens up those 7mm Allen bolts. You can put your retaining wire back in place. Replace those two caps.
Now, we're going to fast forward as Don replaces the wheel. You want to replace your 19mm lug nuts and then lower the vehicle and tighten them the rest of the way. Then you want to torque them in a crossing pattern to 100 foot-pounds.
Once you've repeated that whole procedure for the other side, then get in, pump your brakes until you get a nice firm pedal, and just do quick test stops from 5 or 10 miles an hour, just to make sure everything's working well before you road test the vehicle
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.
