2003 Ford Focus ZX3 Front Ceramic Brake Pad & Rotor Kit TRQ BKA11296

Brought to you buy 1AAuto.com your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. In this video we're going to show you how to replace the front brakes on this 2002 Ford Focus. The same as any 2000 to 2004 and very similar for most vehicles. Tools you'll need are lug wrench or a 19 mm socket and ratchet, jack and jack stands, 3/8 or 8 mm Allen wrench, large screwdriver or small pry bar, and a large C-clamp, some of those sizes may vary.

First of all you want to remove your wheel. If you don't have air tools you'll want to loosen the lug nuts on the ground and then jack up. You can place a jack right here under your body and then use the jack stand to support it. For some reason this vehicle has three different size lug nuts. I've got a 21, 3/4 fits on this and 18 mm fits on that one. Don't really listen to what I say as far as the sizes. Okay, we'll speed up through removing the tire. The lug nuts I believe should be 19 mm on this vehicle. Pull your steering wheel like that. Now on the back you can see that there's some rubber plugs, plastic. Pull those off okay which exposes a Allen screw, one there and also one right up here.

I can see they're an 8 mm or a 3/8th inch Allen screw, socket style. Okay, I took them apart pretty easy. Okay, I'm just going to fast forward through loosening those two bolts. You don't have to pull them all the way out of the caliper. You want to loosen them up and just make sure that they're free of the steering knuckle, so you just kind of turn them counter clockwise and pull them out a little bit to make sure they're coming out. What you may want to do is take a small pry bar or a large screwdriver and just lightly, what you do is pry it out on a caliper.

The caliper comes off. You can kind of get an idea of how good your rotors are by running your finger over them like that and checking for any harsh grooves. If you're unsure any auto parts store can check the run out on them. If you want to replace your rotors it's very easy. This right there, the rotor, very easily comes off. It goes back on. These rotors are fine. In fact you can see my brake pads are all fine. The brakes on this vehicle are fine. I'm just doing the video just to show you. Okay, you get the brake pads out. This inner one out of the caliper. Okay, it comes out. Then this outer one, you may want to use a screwdriver or your pry bar. Pry it out. Okay, and then on the pad if you look and see there's a little line right that. That's your wear indicator. You can see when you look from here, if you can still that little opening then you know your pad is still okay. You can see it on this.

My inner one is slightly more worn, but it's still not all the way into this indicator. You can see this is kind of filled with a little bit of the brake dust. You will want a large C-clamp. You can keep your old pad in there if you're putting new pads on it. What you're doing to do is you're going to push this piston back in; because, as the brakes wear the piston comes out a little bit, so you put the pad on there. Is this clamp large enough? Center it on here. Push the piston back in. Take the clamp off. Take your outer pad and it will just slide down on there some. Some of these pads will come with some lubricant to put on them to keep them from squeaking. Always apply anything. You need to read the directions. Apply the grease as it tells you to. That goes in there. Push the bolts out. Make sure those are sliding freely. All right. Put your caliper back on. You've got your bolt.

Okay, I'm going to speed it up here, especially; because, of the fact that I didn't realize that my angle was so terrible and you couldn't see what I was doing anyways. All I'm doing is tightening up those Allen bolts. You want to tighten those up to about 25-30 foot pounds. We'll put our plastic covers back on and that flips back down. Okay I'll put the wheel back on and you always want to hand start your lug nuts to avoid cross threading them. Now I'm just preliminarily tightening the lug nuts with my air wrench. I'm not tightening them all the way yet. I'm going to wait until I get on the ground to do that. Now here with the car on the ground I'm going to tighten my lug nuts. I'm tightening up to 100 foot pounds. I'm kind of going crosswise, doing the opposite one each time.

Okay, last but certainly not very least here, after you do your brakes make sure that you pump the pedal a bunch of times before you drive the car. This resets the pistons back into the right spot. I'm pumping it quite a bit; because, I did just take apart and put back together the old brake and then do a stop from five miles an hour and ten miles an hour before you road test the car.

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