Compressing Brake Calipers

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Part of the video series: Brake Replacement Instructions

Summary: Compressing brake calipers is an important step in replacing your brakes. Learn how to compress brake calipers in this free brake job instruction video.

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By Mitch Jones
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Mitch Jones has been working on cars as a hobby and made it into a career over the past 11 years. Jones specializes in European vehicles, but can fix most problems on any make and...read more

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on 5/14/2009 have you ever done a brake job and after bleeding the brake lines and having pressure on the pedal, you start the vehicle and wah-la no pressure. help if you can i have followed you brake replacement segments and i can see you know what you are doing...i have even replaced my master cylinder and still nothing...thanks in advance

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"We are going to star by compressing the caliper. With my special tool that I have here, I'm going to take off the old pads and stick them in. It's just as simple as getting the piston to move back. So when you have your new pads, due to the fact they had worn down, the caliper is going to be pushed out to where like it closes down to the tolerance that the pads worn down to. So when you get your new pads they have more of a surface on them, so you have to close this up to get it back over the rotor. So once it's moved back you should be fine to apply the new pads. You want to make sure not to bust the rubber boot around the caliper, then you have your brake fluid would be leaking out, and you would have to replace your caliper. That is how you retract the piston to the caliper."

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