Tips for Cleaning Front Brake Pads

Video Transcript

"MARK BLOCKER: Okay. In this segment we're going to cover cleaning the brake parts part two. The brake pads themselves, they're old pads. You need to check and see if there's any silencers attached to them. And the silencers are a thin metal plate and they're sometimes one or two of them that are fixed over the back of the pad and this stops that high-pitch shrill that you sometimes hear that's associated with braking at a high-pitch screech. A lot of times is an indication or what cause that is the noise dampeners or the isolators that they put on the pads from the factory are missing. In this particular vehicle, it isn't used in the front braking system. I know it's used on the rear. It just depends on your application whether their used on your vehicles or not. But you want to check the old pads and see if you've got those silencers. If you do have the silencers, you want to remove them and clean them 'cause you're going to need to put them back on the new pads. The other thing you want to do is check your nuts that you pulled off and make sure all the threads are clean on them. I like just to give them a quick blasting off with the brake clean. Make sure there's no dirt or anything that build ups around that lock washer that can inhibit its ability to tighten and hold the nut correctly--or the bolt. Excuse me. And if you cleaned those, set those aside. Please watch our next segment on compressing the caliper."