changing breaks...
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changing breaks...
My breaks are startin to squeek a little and i just wanted to know where i could find a nice write up on changing them. I heard you need a special tool to change the back breaks, anyone know how much that would run me and where a good place to buy some break would be? I dont need anything fancy i just have a daily driver v6 but i wanna change the breaks myself
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RE: changing breaks...
http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/how...7/article.html
the tool your talking about is a pad spreader. When you take the caliper off the piston will be too far out to fit the new/thicker pads on and will need to be pushed back into the caliper. The pad spreader is a tool that makes it easy to push it back in but it can be done with a C-clamp if you have one. Just go to your local auto parts store and ask for breaks they should have a cheap,midgrade, and performance set and they should have the tools needed in stock. Good luck changing them, we all gotta start somewhere
Edit: i forgot that my old 96 V6 mustang needed a special tool to actually spin the piston back into the caliper,i dont know if they kept the same design until 03
the tool your talking about is a pad spreader. When you take the caliper off the piston will be too far out to fit the new/thicker pads on and will need to be pushed back into the caliper. The pad spreader is a tool that makes it easy to push it back in but it can be done with a C-clamp if you have one. Just go to your local auto parts store and ask for breaks they should have a cheap,midgrade, and performance set and they should have the tools needed in stock. Good luck changing them, we all gotta start somewhere
Edit: i forgot that my old 96 V6 mustang needed a special tool to actually spin the piston back into the caliper,i dont know if they kept the same design until 03
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RE: changing breaks...
all cubes are the same the one that i got isnt a cube it only has one pattern made for only a few ford models, all the ones on the cube were much too small trust me i tried. I still have the tool and havent used it in about a year and a half so if you need it its yours. Hopefully someone with a new edge V6 will chime in
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RE: changing breaks...
so is there a sticky anywhere...or possibly a good write up online that you guys know of that would at least giving me a starting point on changing em? i wanna do it on like wednesday so i have a couple of days
