I have the factory service manual, but is there anything that I need to worry about from anybody's experiences with doing this? Thanks a lot.

 

make sure to siphon some of your brake fluid out of the resevoir, you do not want that spilling all over the place. Apply anti-squeek over the shims. Um...pressing the piston is easy with a pair of big channel locks.

 

It's real easy, you should have no problems at all.

 

Dont push the piston too far in, and dont touch the brake pedal while the caliper is off.

 

dont press the piston in with channel locks, the piston needs to rotate as it goes in, if you can rotate it the piston will go right on in, i used a c-clamp that has a swivle head on it so that as it is applying force inward the piston can rotate.

 

Only the rears need to be rotated clockwise to retract the pistons, The front ones can be pushed in normally!

 

ditto

 

Learn something new everyday, thanks!

 

A cool trick is putting the old pad on the piston and pressing the pad, not the piston down with the C-clamp. This distributes force equally. Plus, its a little quicker I think.

 

Channel locks.
C-clamp.