My first brakejob

[Sunset01SS]

I am not much of a mechanic but like doing stuff myself so I am gonna change the front brake pads on my 96. Any tips or things I should be careful of? I kinda know how to do it since I watched a friend do a brakejob once.

[Blank]

eh brakes arent hard at all, lossen up your wheels
jack the car up, put it on some stands take off tire, loosen the caliper(which btw your gonna need a special wrench for, sold at kragen for 3 bucks)
remove pads by pulling them out
get a c-clamp or something of that extent and compress the cylinder, that on the caliper itself
put on pads and work backwards
u might want to bleed your brakes also,
if yor not to sure on that just ask away
my hands are tired now

[Sunset01SS]

Cool. I did it. And they seem to work well too :D
I am just kind of a chicken when it comes to working on the car b/c I don't know that much and don't want to screw anything up. But I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I do something myself. Next up: installing 3.73s in my SS...jk I don't think I'm ready for that yet but I wish I could do that myself.

[ January 03, 2004: Message edited by: Sunset01SS ]</p>

[Blank]

haha great glad you got thru it in one piece
as far as gears go....ill think ill pass :rolleyes: