My car is low on brake pads and it sqeaks when i brake, i checked the left rear and its almost out. I went to my auto shop and got some brake pads and i took off the tires and the basic things to get the brake pads. I got the old brake pads off but then i can't get the new one on because the thing that holds the pads together won't move apart, providing me to put in the new pads. I can put the new pads on but it won't fit the rotor anymore due to the thickness of the new pads. Do you know what i miss or what i did wrong? Let me know its getting annoying and i think its not so safe to drive my car. Its a daily driven car so yeah. Thanks

 

The things that squeeze the brake pads together are calipers. When you take them off the car the brake fluid is still pushing on them a little bit and holding them in place. To get them to open wide enough you will have to pop your hood and open the cap for your brake fluid resevoir (forget where it in on the teg but it will say DOT3 or DOT4 or something on it and be connected to the firewall). Then you take a c-clamp (or some very strong hands) and open the calipers enough to put the brake pads on.

Put it back together, make sure you still have brake fluid in the tank and you're good to go.

Damn that was long haha.

 

thats a good explaination right there.^ but its really easy if you think about how thebraking system works

 

Yep but it's hard to figure out how it works without someone explaining it to you. Eventually it all clicks and becomes easy. Until something breaks. Haha.

 

You really dont even need to do all that..

Just get a C clamp and twist the piston back in..

 

ya you can go to your local auto store, you can buy for cheap the tool that twists it back in there

 

Rear brakes have to be screwed back in. Same motion as a screwdriver hence the slots on the caliper. A c-clamp won't get them back in. That only works for the front.

 

Iono about yall, but on the rear I just did it the same I did in the front by using the c-clamp and it work beautifully..just take a little muscle that's all haha.

 

We tryed that already, it didn't work too. I had my uncle that knows how to change brake pads tryed it and it didn't work. He was like i don't know why the calipers won't open wide enough for me to fit the pads on the rotor.

 

On the rear rotor you HAVE to turn, or twist the piston back in, if you push it in you can break it. It takes a bit of muscle to get it to move, but once it does it is really easy.

The front caliper you just have to push the piston back in using a c-clapm, or I have also used the "quick grips"

 

Wow I didn't know that, haha. Shows how many brake jobs I have done on Integras.

 

Racermech is right.........when u change the back brakes the calipers are supposed to twist, if you push them in like the fronts they might not close which mihgt be your problem or they will break..........try twistin them with the c clamp or whatever your using

 

Compress the fronts with the cap off the resevoir, twist the rears as mentioned above

 

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The front caliper you just have to push the piston back in using a c-clapm, or I have also used the "quick grips"</TD></TR></TABLE>



Make sure that the "plus" on the piston is oriented vertically so that the pins on the rear of the inner brake pads prevents the piston from rotating.

 

for the rear, I suggest you get a caliper turning tool thing from kragen or autozone. It helps a lot.

 

For twisting the rear brake pistons back in, I use an open ended wrench pressed into the 'X' on the piston, then I use a screwdriver thru the opposite closed end of the wrench and spin the piston in. Works like a charm, I even bought the cube tool with all the patterns on it for this purpose, but I like the wrench method better.