Installing Bracket for Brake Pads

Video Transcript

"MARK BLOCKER: Okay. In this segment, we're going to cover installing the calliper mounting bracket in the brake pads. Prior to installing the bracket, we want to lubricate the various points. Like I said earlier, these springs that are installed in here that hold the tension. A lot of the higher-end brake kits, if you get a service kit, you might get these replaced in with your brake pads or a caliper rebuild kit. In which case, you just remove them and install the new ones. You want to apply a very light dosage of lubricant on those sliding points to ensure that the brakes can slide back and forth evenly. I like to use anti-freeze. In this situation, less is good because all we want is just a little bit of lubrication on the pivot points for the brake pads and the caliper slide position and we don't want it anywhere else. Lubricant or an anti-seize, a device used to prevent friction, is not a good idea and in our friction brake system anywhere else. So, I've just applied a very light amount there and I'm just going to brush around my finger, if you got a brush or you can use a rag or--but you just want to coat those little slide points for the brake pads evenly and then a very light application to the pin itself for the caliper slide. And I'll just rub a little bit around on there and when I put the caliper on there, I'm going to move back and forth and slide it and make sure I get that lubricant spread around evenly. In order to mount this back on the vehicle, it just slides over the front rotor back to that mounting position and so with those two bolts that we removed earlier. And if you remember, those two bolts have lock washers on them. That means a torque wrench won't be necessary to set a torque reding. You can't torque down both with locking lock--locking washers on them, they compress. And so, what you want to do is take both bolts and run them down to where they're snug. And then once both of them are snugged up, you visually inspect it, just sit in there correctly in a right position just one at a time. Tighten them down and you want those to be getting tight and after I've tightened both, I might like to double check them. Okay. Now, we've got the caliper mounting bracket on. Okay. Now, we got the caliper mounting bracket on. Please watch our next segment on installing the brake pads."