Replace Motorcycle Brake Pads

Video Transcript

"Alright now we're going to clean out the caliper, get all the nasty old brake dust out of there and get it ready for the new pads. So, this stuff's the best, the CRC Brake Clean, it's a brake parts cleaner. This thing will clean anything, you just don't want to get it on painted stuff, because it'll take the paint right off. So just spray it on the towel, kind of just kind of clean this up, spray it inside, and you'll see all the dirt and stuff come off of it. Make sure there's no bleeding coming out of the brake line. This is your brake line, this is going up to the control so, if you ever see any fluid coming out of here, you need to check this bolt and make sure it's tight. If the bolt's tight and you see leaking, you're probably missing parts and you're going to need to diagnose that a little bit further. But, in this case, everything's working properly, these are not pinched or bent or anything. These are pistons in here, if you look, one, two, three, four. Now what happens is when you squeeze this brake, these pistons collapse on each other. The brake fluid runs down and it pushes everything together. So a lot of the times when you might be working on a bike, and you do a brake change, what happens is the brake pads they wear away and the pistons come closer together. Now when you go to put new brake pads in, they're thicker so what you're going to need to do is you're going to get a tool and you're' going to need to spread the pistons apart even wider to get it back on the rotor. When you wear your brake pads down all the time and you go to change with new pads, you're definitely going to have to spread it apart before you put it back onto the rotor. So in this case, they weren't worn down too much so we should be alright. So we're just going to go ahead and put the pads back in. You just take the pads and you slide them right in to the original grooves. Just like that, and then you're going to go back and take these Set Pins and you're going to put them through. Do one side at a time, now they're seated, take your Allen Wrench, get that back in there, get this one tightened up. Always screw everything in, but not tight, and then once you get everything in go back and then you're going to tighten it. Now your brand new pads are in, and this is what I was talking about before when you have to spread it apart, put this between there, wiggle them around until they're spread apart, and push it in. Just like that, and that'll give us enough room to slide the new rotor right into the middle. Alright, now that we've got this side done, were just going to go on to the other side and you're just going to repeat the same process. It's the same exact thing on both sides. Just one note, when doing a brake job and you have calipers off like this, never grab the brake. Because what's going to happen is you're going to push those pistons together and you're going to have a pain in the butt time trying to just pry the brake pads apart. So, whoever's there, or just you just remember, don't, don't push on this the whole time."