I know this is a difficult task but I thought might as well make one for some of the new guys that have never tried to change them before. I also painted my calipers since I thought it was a good time to do this too.

1. Jack the front of your truck up so you can remove both front wheels. I put two jack stands under the frame to help support the truck. And no I didnt jack up the truck on the nerf bar, the stock jack was just there. Never used it lol



2. Remove Wheels


3. Remove Cap on master cylinder so that it wont overflow with brake fluid when you take apart the caliper. You can put a shop rag or plastic baggie to catch the overflow. Mine did not overflow fyi


4. Remove the 4 bolts that hold the caliper in place. The bigger bolts are 21mm and the smaller ones are 13mm. Soak good with wd-40 for about 15 minutes so its easier to take them off because they are super tight.



5. Remove the bolts and pull the caliper of the rotor. Be careful because it is heavy and u dont want to mess up the brake fluid line. I used a wire hanger and rigged it up so it would hold it up.



6. Separate the caliper and Remove the old brake pads. they just push out the sides.


7. Now you need to compress the piston. Get a c-clamp and one of the old pads. Start to tighten the clamp so the pistons compresses.


8. Put the new pads in the caliper. I got ceramic pads so you would want to grease the back of them before you put them in so they wont squeal when you drive them.


9. Put it all back together and tighten all your bolts tight.


Next steps is what I did to make sure the new pads mated to the rotors well.

10. Start the truck and press on your brakes 5-6 times. Then I went to a emptied parking lot and did runs from 45-5, pressing on the brakes 5-6 times and repeated the process from 35-5. Then I drove around for 15 minutes. This worked for me as I have zero squealing and my truck stops great now.

Hope this diy helps some people out. Enjoy! Silver

 

Outstanding thread and pix!! You are indeed a credit to this forum! Agree 1000% btw. Well done. Wanna do mine on my KIA now?? ha ha ha lol I already know the answer btw, lol.

 

Nice write-up, but FYI...you don't need to remove the master cylinder cap. Just compress the calipers slowly and you'da been fine. I have NEVER removed the cap and don't understand why anyone does.
I just did my exploder front and back...never removed the cap.

I'll copy and put theis in the DIY section for ya.

and WOW, those stock pads were thin!OMG

 

lol not a big deal since its so hard to take off lol

 

what he said ...

looking good bullet !!

 

yeah...yeah

 

Nice write up. Once mine go bad I will have to check this out. I haven't done breaks before. Lol. Dont flame me to bad for never doing them before.

 

I don't see it in the write up but did you clean and re-grease the caliper bolts?

 

yes never sieze those suckers and oh yeah loosen the front lugs before you jack it up otherwise stellar thread imo.

 

I did it and didnt compress the piston or anything too. It was a biatch, I wish I woulda done it lol. I guess Im going to have to paint my calipers....thanks alot silver, more money down the hole