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TRQ suspension kits are manufactured using premium raw materials and coatings for extended service life. Each TRQ suspension component is designed to be a direct, maintenance-free replacement to the stock unit. To extend the life of your steering and suspension components, TRQ recommends replacing components in pairs, sets, or kits. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
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Install Tip: When replacing steering components, have a professional alignment performed afterwards. This ensures proper tracking and even tire wear.
Our steering and suspension components are pre-greased and sealed for long life and do not require the extra maintenance typically required by greaseable versions.
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In this video, we're going to show you how to check and replace the front brakes on this 2003 Ford F250 Super Duty. Obviously we do the passenger side. You would want to repeat the driver side afterwards. You always want to replace your brakes in pairs.
Tools you'll need are jack and jack stand, 16, 17 and 21 millimeter sockets. You'll need a breaker bar or a pipe for some leverage or for some of those lug nuts or other bolts that are difficult. If your vehicle, like ours, is from the Northeast, you might need a large hammer and a large pry bar to get the tire off as well as possibly to get the rotor off, large flat blade screwdriver, a small wire brush, large C-clamp and torque wrench.
Okay, you'll need a large screwdriver or pry bar. It doesn't have to be this big but there's a little slots back in the back. Going to pry out. The next one, that pulls right off. Okay, if you don't have to benefit of impact tools, you want to loosen the lug nuts while the truck is on the ground, then raise and support the vehicle and remove the lug nuts these are 21 millimeter. Here I'll just fast forward as I remove the lug nuts from the wheel. Okay, so my tire is basically just stuck onto the hub, so I put a lug nut back on. That just helps if your tire breaks loose, it doesn't go flying off and hurt you because it can be heavy. Give it some pulls. I try the foot method. It doesn't seem to work. Okay, neither of those methods work, then a nice big hammer. Hit the back of the tire. You don't want to hit the rim because you don't want to bend it and that'll get your wheel loose. Then you remove that lug nut and take the wheel and tire off.
Okay, so inspection of the brakes. You want to check your rotors. You can check the condition of your rotors. You can see they're in pretty good shape visually. Not a lot of rust. Take the back of your fingernail, run it up and down. You'll feel slight groves but you shouldn't feel much. Same thing back side. You shouldn't feel any deep grove. Okay. Then, looking in here, you can see there's your rotor. You see there's quite a bit of life left on the inner pad and then the outer pad has quite a bit of life left there as well.
Next thing you want to do is remove these calipers. You want to remove two bolts, one here and then one right down here. Okay, these bolts should both be 16 millimeter. On this truck, my lower bolt's 16 millimeter, my upper bolt is 14 millimeter. They should come off pretty easily with a regular ratchet. I'll fast forward through removing those. Again, on this truck, there were two different sizes. I believe one of them was replaced from a previous repair. They probably should both be 16 or 17 millimeter.
Okay. As your brakes wear, they have a self adjusting mechanism which is basically the pistons come out of the caliper. You can use a large screwdriver and this is to reset those pistons as well as to help you get the caliper off, but you can just see I'm prying out and if you watch, I'll be forcing the caliper out which is actually forcing the pistons back in. Okay. Now, the caliper's nice and loose. The caliper comes right off. Set it right here on the leaf spring. Okay. You can see there are two little return springs and you can take your outer pad out. I'll move that spring there. You see on my brakes, my outer pad, this is a wear indicator. There's still plenty of life left on there. I'll take my inner pad. Okay, the same thing that wear indicator, plenty of life in it.
Now, if you want to remove or replace your rotors, you're going to have to remove this caliper bracket. There's two 21 millimeter bolts here and down here. These bolts are going to be very tight. The right tool for the job is a good size breaker bar. if you don't have that, you can use your ratchet handle and a nice piece of pipe like this to give yourself some extra leverage to get them started.
Okay, and we'll fast forward here as I remove those bolts the rest of the way and then remove that caliper bracket. On a Northeastern truck like ours, you may run into the discs being pretty well seized onto the hubs, penetrating oil around the studs and as well as around the hub. I rotate it more and let it sit for a while. Use a large hammer. Be careful not to hit the wheel studs. Tap it in and then from the top, just to try and break it loose. Sometimes it'll break loose with just this. Then, the last thing is, you can use a pry bar. Put it between the steering knuckle and the disk and it'll come free. Here goes the new one. It slides right back into place.
Okay. As you can see, the brakes on the truck didn't really need to be replaced but we like to test fit the new parts from 1A Auto. Make sure everything fits on there great and you're going to have a good experience. Right here, I'm just fast forwarding. I just put a couple of lug nuts on, helps hold the rotor into place so you can put everything together easily. In your caliper bracket, there are little slides that the brake shoes run. You want to take those out, replace them with the new ones from your new pads. if your pads do not come with them, you want to clean them with a wire brush.
Okay. Also, you want to check both these. They should slide back and forth nice and easy like these do. If they're catching at all, take them out. Wire brush them, regrease them and put them back in, okay. Now, you take this caliper bracket. Put it in place. Okay and fast forward as I start those nuts in. What I notice is on starting them in is that the bracket is hitting on the rotor and so what I do is take my impact wrench, put another lug nut on and tighten those up and you can see the rotor goes in, then just remove the lug nuts and continue on here and just preliminarily tighten up those caliper bolts. You want to torque these to 145 foot-pounds. As your pads wear, your pistons work themselves out of the caliber. What you need to do is reset them, so I got my old pad here. Put that in place, then I use a large C-clamp. Okay. As I tighten the clamp, you'll see the two pistons move pull back in the caliper, all right.
Okay. They're all set. Okay. I use the wire brush, clean off my slides here and when you put these back in, they do have sides. Push down and make sure that is towards the bracket. See, this won't go up here. Okay. New pads from 1A Auto. Take them, push them up in, and slide them into place. Make sure they're in. Push in the sliding one there. Okay, I'll just fast forward as I start the bolts for the caliper to the bracket. Okay. These bolt I'm going to tighten, I'm going to torque between 23 and 25 foot-pounds.
Okay, speed up the tape here a little bit as I put the wheel back on, start the lug nuts by hand first and then I'll preliminary tighten them up with the ratchet. Okay, now I torqued the lug nuts to 120 foot-pounds, using a crossing pattern and then I go around one by one and make sure they're all torqued.
Okay. Put the center cap back on and then, very important, make sure you pump your brakes a bunch of times. This resets the pistons and the calipers. Then, before you drive your vehicle on the road, just do a test stop from 5 and 10 miles an hour. Make sure the brakes are working properly.
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Okay, friends, one of the first things we need to do to start this job is to safely raise and support the vehicle. I like to raise it directly on the frame. Once you have the wheel off the ground, we're going to remove our center cover. That exposes our 19-millimeter lug nuts. Remove them all and then remove the wheel. Okay. So we took the wheel off so we have a nice, clear view of the sway bar link here. You don't necessarily have to, but it makes it easier to see. What you're going to need is a 7-millimeter Allen head. I'm going to come right in here and I'm just going to give it a couple of nice bonks. Now we're going to take our 21-millimeter wrench, put it right over this nut. The next thing we're going to do is use a ratchet or an air gun, whatever you have, put it on here. And when we turn this, we actually want to try to turn it so we're tightening. It's going to sound weird, but essentially we want the ratchet so it's tightening and the wrench so it's turning to the left. We'll break that free and then we'll go like this, and what you'll notice is it starts loosening up. Remove that completely. There we go. Do the same to the top.
Okay. I'll get my tool off of here. There we are, friends. Once you've compared the new sway bar link to your old sway bar link, it's going to be time for the install. You're going to notice your new sway bar link came with some nice new washers. Those washers are going to go on before you install. Slide them right in, and they're going to go up against this nutted area. Start it in the control arm, and then I'll put it in the sway bar. I'm just going to get this bent down. Slide it right in there. Perfect. We've got our two nuts here. Start them both on. Now it's going to be time to tighten these up. To get onto that nut that's on the inside there, use your 17-millimeter wrench. Now I'm going to use a 21-millimeter and I'm going to snug this up. All right. That bottomed out. Do the same to the other one and then we'll torque them down. Now we're going to torque these to 107 foot-pounds.
It's always a great idea to double-check everything that you removed and replaced. Just make sure everything's secure and good to go. Once you've done that, let's go ahead and get the wheel up on here. Bring the vehicle down so the tire is just barely touching the ground, so it can't spin. And then torque the wheels in a criss-cross manner to 103 foot-pounds. Now it's going to be time to get our center cover on here. If you were to turn it around, you might see something that looks a lot like a valve stem. Line it up with your valve stem and then go ahead and pop it on there.
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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace an outer tie rod on this 2003 GMC Envoy XL. We show you on the passenger side, but the driver side is a similar procedure. The items you'll need for this include a new outer tie rod from 1AAuto.com, 19mm and 21mm socket and ratchet, 10mm, 22mm and 26mm wrenches, flat blade screwdriver, tape measure, pliers, hammer, torque wrench, and jack and jack stands.
Start by removing your wheel and tire. Pry off the cap first. If you don't have the benefit of air tools, you'll want to loosen the lug nuts, then raise and secure the vehicle on jack stands, and remove the lug nuts the rest of the way. We have air tools, so we put the vehicle up on jack and jack stands, remove the lug nuts, and remove the wheel and tire.
Start off by just spraying both ends of your outer rod with some penetrating oil. This will just help to remove those nuts. Then you want to measure from the end of the first nut on the outer tie rod to the center of this nut. You can see we actually marked on the outer tie rod where you should measure to. You want to make sure when you put your new outer tie rod on that it's the same distance.
Put a 26mm wrench on the larger nut and a 22mm wrench on the smaller nut. Just break that smaller one free. Now, using a pair of pliers, just straighten out this cotter pin. Once it's straightened out, try to hit it through or pull it through. If it doesn't move, then you can just break off this end. You just move each tab up and down until it breaks off. After you've done that, you can again try pulling it from the other side. If that doesn't work, you can just use a hammer and a punch.
Using a 21mm socket, just remove that nut. Hit the wheel knuckle with a hammer. That will just break that free. Then you can just twist your outer tie rod off. Now, just remove that nut on the outer tie rod the rest of the way.
I can see that my bolt was on to here, so I'm just going to make a mark on the new one to here. That's where I'm going to put my bolt onto, just a preliminary alignment. Twist the outer tie rod into place. Make sure that rubber boot is back on there. Then push the outer tie rod up into the wheel knuckle.
Just measure and make sure it's the same distance. If it is, you're all set. If not, you want to just adjust the nuts on the end of the outer tie rod. Since it is, we're just going to replace this nut and tighten it up. You can see we're using a 10mm wrench to just hold the stud steady. Now just tighten up these two nuts.
Replace your wheel. Replace the lug nuts and tighten them up preliminarily. Lower the vehicle. Tighten them the rest of the way, and torque each of them to 100 foot-pounds in a crossing pattern.
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