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Hi, I'm Jeremy from 1AAuto. I'm going to help you fix your car today, and the next time you need parts for your car think of 1AAuto.com. Thank you.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the front brakes on a 2003 Honda Civic. It's pretty much the same for a 2001-2005 Honda Civic. The tools that you'll need for this job include a jack and jack stands, 19mm socket and breaker bar, 12mm wrench, 17mm wrench, Phillips screwdriver, large c-clamp, wire brush, some anti-seize, and a torque wrench.
The first step is to break the lug nuts loose, and you do that by leaving the car on the ground so that the wheel doesn't spin when you lift up on it. Here we go. Now we're going to raise the car up and take the wheel off. Now we're going to pull it off.
The next step is to pull these two screws out of the rotor. Normally they're stuck in there really tight, so I try to use a screwdriver first, and then go on to more drastic measures if need be. These are actually coming out.
The next step is to remove these two 12mm bolts that hold the caliper to the caliper bracket. You can use a ratchet or the style wrench. One trick is to connect the two wrenches together, and then bump them with your fist so you can pull them out. The next thing I like to do is pull the caliper really hard toward me so that it compresses the piston inside the caliper. It makes the caliper loose, making it easier to remove. Remove the caliper.
Now we can take the brake pads out. These ones are in pretty good shape, so we'll probably end up putting these right back in. Then you're going to take off the caliper bracket, which, once again, you can use the same method of linking the wrenches together to break it loose. Now the caliper bracket is off.
Now that we have the caliper bracket off, we can take off the rotor, as you can see.
For reinstall, place the rotor back on the hub. Apply a little anti-seize to the Phillips screws, and put them back in the rotor. Clean up the brake pad slides to make sure that they're not going to make the brake pad bind up and cause uneven brake pad wear. Now we have the caliper bracket that needs to go back on.
Then we can put the bracket right back on after it's nice and clean. We are now ready to put the brake pads in. Normally, they're brand new and you can just slide them in, where this one is used. I'm probably going to put a little anti-seize on this as well. It does exactly what it is called, and it prevents the brake pads from sticking in the slides. You can see the squeaker right here. This is the thing that makes all the noise whenever you need new brake pads. That goes right here on the inside. You're going to need to compress this caliper. The best way to do that is actually with a giant C-clamp. As you can see, as you tighten the C-clamp, it pushes the piston in. Pretty awesome, right? Now it's completely compressed and you can pull the C-clamp out.
Like I said before, put the caliper on. Here's the caliper bolts. Once again, anti-seize. If you live in a dry climate, these things won't be rusty, but in New England, they're always rusty. Voila, your brakes are back together again.
It's now time to put the tire back on. Slide the wheel into place and tighten the lug nuts preliminarily. Lower the vehicle to the ground. The last step is to torque the wheels. I usually a hundred foot-pounds on pretty much all the wheels that I tighten. Basically, grab your torque wrench, always do it in a cross pattern so that the wheel goes on straight. Now the pedal's pumped and the brakes feel good again.
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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 show you how to replace the front brakes on this 1998 Honda Civic and it's the same part and process on these Civics from '96 to 2005. We show you on the passenger side, but the driver's side is the similar procedure. The items you'll need for this are a new brake pad and rotor kit from 1AAuto.com; 12mm, 17mm, and 19mm sockets and ratchet with a piece of pipe for leverage; a Phillips bit or an impact driver; flat blade screwdriver; wire brush; brake grease; a torque wrench; jack and jack stands; and a large C-clamp.
Start off by removing your wheel. If you don't have the benefit of air tools, you want to loosen the lug nuts with the vehicle on the ground and raise it and secure it with jack and jack stands and remove the lug nuts and the wheel and tire the rest of the way.
To inspect your brakes, you want to check the rotor for any deep gouges. This one has several. Then, you want to check your brake pads and you can check this one here and you can also check them right through here on your caliper.
Now, remove this 12mm bolt right here. Use a flat blade screwdriver and pry the inside brake pad back. That will push the piston and the caliper back so you can lift it out and then pull it back off the slide and just put that up and out of the way. Pull the brake pads off.
Back here, you'll see two 17mm bolts. Just go ahead and remove those and you may need a piece of pipe for some added leverage to help you with this. Once those are removed, your caliper bracket will come right off. There's two Phillips plugs on this rotor and you can use a Phillips bit, but if it doesn't work, if it's too hard to remove them, you may need to use an impact driver like we're using here. Let me just hammer the end of it and turn and you want to remove those two Phillips plugs. Once they're removed, the rotor pulls right off.
On the right, are the old rotor and brake pads. On the left are the new ones from 1A Auto. You can see they're identical and the mount exactly the same. Use some mineral spirits or thinner to just clean the packing grease off of your rotor and take some brake grease and put it on the ends of your brake pads. Use a wire brush to just clean off your caliper bracket, primarily where the brake pads fit in.
Put an old brake pad in front of the caliper piston and use a C-clamp and just push that brake pad in and this will reset that caliper piston. Slide your new rotor in place and we'll fast forward as Don replaces those two Phillips plugs and put your caliper bracket into place and replace those two 17mm bolts that hold it. You want to torque these bolts to 85 foot-pounds.
Apply some brake grease to the slide and put your brake pads into place. Pull your caliper down and put it into place to slide it on the slide and push it down and replace that lower slide bolt.
We'll just fast forward as he tightens that up nice and firm and then replace your wheel and your wheel cover and then the four lug nuts. You want to tighten them preliminarily. Lower the vehicle and then tighten them the rest of the way and then torque each of them in a crossing pattern to 100 foot-pounds.
Before taking the vehicle out on the road, you want to first pump the brakes until they firm up and then do a stopping test from five miles per hour and then ten miles per hour.
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