Guru FYI for swapping front rotors

[wantmorepower]

Looking for some hands on advise here. Throughout the years of working on my own vehicles I have only once changed rotors on a vehicle. (79 powerwagon) That was so bad the brake shop had to take over and eventualy use the cutting torch to get the job done.

I am planning on swapping the front rotors on my 96 and am looking for any first hand advise that is not explained in a chilton manual to make this job as easy as possible. Any Gurus out there that can offer sage advise?

[Distephano]

Pretty simple really...

Take off Wheel
Take off Caliper
Take off rotor

Put rotor on
Compress Caliper
Put caliper On
Put wheel on

To take off the calipers you will need a large Allen key or hex wrench.

Use a big C clamp and a small peice of wood to compress the caliper.

Don't let the calipers hang by the lines!

[wantmorepower]

Like i said anything that is not in chilton 101 would be appreciated.

[wantmorepower]

Oooops wrong forum.

Hey moddy could you move to suspension? ;)

[shenanigans]

btw, for hex hex key to get caliper off, they sell a socket version, they sell 2 for GM cars, its the larger of the two.

And to be hones what he said pretty much covers, what you need to know.

Only advice I see different that I woudl give and chilton's wouldn't.

You don't have to disconnect the battery before you do this ;)

[DannyV6Camaro]

Originally posted by shenanigans:
btw, for hex hex key to get caliper off, they sell a socket version, they sell 2 for GM cars, its the larger of the two.

And to be hones what he said pretty much covers, what you need to know.

Only advice I see different that I woudl give and chilton's wouldn't.

You don't have to disconnect the battery before you do this ;)

hex key?? for what?? i just changed mine last week and didnt use no hex key. just take the caliper of and the rotor should come off. i had to use a hammer to get couple of the old ones off, cause they were rusted on there

[tdz16]

Won't the hex bolts just take the brake pad holding portion of the caliper off? Aren't there two like 17 mm bolts that take the WHOLE caliper off? I know thats how it is on a lot of cars...haven't had to have these off yet so I dunno....

[wantmorepower]

yeah i looks to be a simple job ... just asking. The rotors on my dodge was to be simple too but that one turned into a major PITA.

Thanks everyone.

[98 3.8]

There are two 17mm bolts to take the whole assembly off, like tdz16 said. That is the way I did it when I changed my rotors last weekend.

[still-asleep]

http://www.installuniversity.com/ins...sity/index.htm

go under the "install documents" and then under the brake pad and rotor install.

[T-Punk]

the older cars have the hex keys, the newer cars use the 17mm, beleive me i know, ive been messing with suspension parts between 94 and 01 firebirds this week.

[shenanigans]

Originally posted by T-Punk:
the older cars have the hex keys, the newer cars use the 17mm, beleive me i know, ive been messing with suspension parts between 94 and 01 firebirds this week.

hehehe I was just gonna ask that question, because I have yet to do my 3.8L but on my 3.4L it was definitely a hex.

[wantmorepower]

Well you guys were right with the install. almost laughably easy. Really Really Really easy. Thanks for input.