How to Remount a Caliper in a Truck

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Nate McCullough on behalf of Expert Village. In the following clips we're going to talk about the correct procedure for replacing your upper and lower ball joints on a two wheel drive, full size vehicle. In this clip we're going to talk about the proper way to remount our brake pads and caliper. I have my brake pads right here. These pads they're new and they come with shims, you're going to make sure that after you take them off that you clip your shims back into position. This is our wear indicator; the wear indicator is going to go on the inboard side, trailing edge. Take it, slip it over here. I'm just going to pop this one into place; I'll give you a real good view on the outboard edge. This is my outboard pad; make sure my shim is stuck on there. You can see this notch here is going to fit right in the groove there, set it down into place, align the upper portion in the same style groove, and squeeze it down. Once you have those in place you can unhook your caliper, you can discard your caliper hook. Make sure that your brake hose is not twisted when you reinstall your caliper. Your brake hoses have lines on them; you?re going to want to be able to follow the line all the way around at the same angle. If you can't do that, that means your caliper hose is twisted, and you need to untwist it before you install it. Alright, with my caliper in place, I'm going to take my two mounting nuts; you have an upper and a lower, they are identical. Start that one and we're going to go down and start our lower one. You're going to want to start both of them before you tighten either of them down. I'm going to go ahead and tighten down my caliper mounting bolts. These bolts are not extremely hardened and you?re not going to want to over tighten them. I've had may customers com in with broken caliper bolts, they're trying to save some money and do their own brake service and broke off a bolt. Approximately a quarter turn past tight is plenty, it's tight right now which means it?s snug, I can't turn it with my fingers. I'm going to give it a quarter turn, and that's plenty right there. That's the proper way to install your brake pads and remount your vehicles caliper."