SUSP: Replacing Rear Rotors w/ Pads

[patastinky]

lol patastinky those pads are shot LOL

Hell yah! If you like that you should see the rotor. Pad had no more meat left. It was making a really sweeeet grinding noise. When I puchased the accord I knew I would have to do the brakes on it. Great write up.

[Maple50175]

lol patastinky those pads are shot LOL

[patastinky]

I did mine last week.


Believe it was $16 for the pads at vatozone, and $39.99 for both rotors at Strauss.

[aero]

Nice writeup

Wish it were that simple to just change the shoes on drum brakes.... I wont be changing mine again needless to say.

[whothewhat]

should of painte dthe claipers when you were at it dude

[Maple50175]

Peoples Opinions about my brakes
Micks92accord: your brakes looked FUCKED
Tha FiRM iNC: lol i kno dude i can tell....lol they look like a mirror

[williamsvt]

nice job and pictures

should have called me up to help you.

[Maple50175]

Accomplished this today. Very excited here we go..

Tools Needed
12mm Socket
14mm Socket
12mm Wrench
14mm Wrench
Socket Extention
Large Phillips Screwdriver

Parts
2 Rear Brake Rotors
2 Set's of brake pads
Brake Grease
Brake Cleaner
PB blaster


Here we go. Ill just got into detail on things people don't know how to do.
Make sure your emergency brake is not on.
First jack up car and support it with jackstands. Take Tire off. Inspect Rotor and pads for wear. Mine were completly screwed as you can see from the pictures. You will then see 2 Screws that are Phillips head. I took the screwdriver put it on and bashed the crap out of it while trying to turn the screwdriver. They came loose-take them out.


Next Remove the Caliper. 2 12mm bolts that hold it on. That will come right off and you will need to remove the old pads. They take a minute to free but they will get loose.

Next you will need to remove the (not sure what it's called) peice. They are 2 14mm bolts that you need to take out. Once that is off you can slide that out of the way and you will just see the rotor like below.

Next your going to wiggle the rotor until it comes off the hub. Simple enough.

clean up any areas you see just for gods sake.


After you will need to put the new disk rotor on same way you got it off. Then you will need to screw in those 2 phillips head screws. That sorta holds on the rotor to the hub.

next you will get the peice with the brake piston and it looks like an X. Your going to have to get some plyers and turn it CLOCKWISE to make the piston go back in so you have enough clearance to put it over the caliper (i think im confusing my parts) Next you will put the new pads on and bolt the 2 12mm bolts until tightend.

Next you will get the caliper and put it over pads and get everything aligned so you can bolt in the 2 bolts. VERY easy.

Once this is complete your just about done.

Sit back and admire what you've done. I was quoted 230$ to replace the rear pads and disks. This just cost me about shy of 50$ for everything. Since now i know what im doing Im going to swap them off with BREMBO blanks soon.

Enjoy