![\"Use](\"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SportTrakBrakes-01A.jpg\")
<\/a>Use a large C Clamp to push the pistons back about 1\/2 inch.<\/p><\/div>\n
Next, remove the bolt with that holds the wire for the anti-lock brake sensor with a 10mm wrench.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a>Using a 10mm wrench, remove the Anti-Lock sensor cable.<\/p><\/div>\n
Remove the two bolts that hold the caliper to the bracket.\u00a0 Remember\u00a0 \u201cLefty Loosey, Righty Tighty?\u201d\u00a0 In this case, since you are on the \u201cback\u201d side of the bolt it is now REVERSED.\u00a0 So to loosen these bolts you are going to turn them to the RIGHT.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Remove the caliper attaching bolts.<\/p><\/div>\n
The caliper will now lift off.\u00a0 The pads stay with the mounting bracket.\u00a0 \u00a0Bend up a heavy piece of wire, welding rod, coat hanger, or something similar to make a hanger for the caliper.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let it hang from the brake hose.\u00a0 Support the caliper with the wire hanger and position it back out of the way.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Use a heavy wire to hang the caliper, don’t let it hang by the brake line.<\/p><\/div>\n
Remove the pads by pulling them out of the bracket.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The pads will pull straight out of the bracket notches.<\/p><\/div>\n
Next, remove the caliper mounting bracket by removing its two attaching bolts.\u00a0\u00a0 These are pretty tight so I recommend a \u00bd inch breaker bar to get them loose, then you can remove them with your ratchet.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The bracket attachment bolts are very tight, use a breaker bar to loosen them.<\/p><\/div>\n
Remove the clips on the lugs that hold the rotor in place, then remove the rotor stock rotor and replace it with then new rotor.\u00a0 The new slotted and cross drilled rotors are directional.\u00a0 There are left and right rotors and they are marked with a R or L after the part number.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Check the rotor for L or R.<\/p><\/div>\n
Put the new rotor on and use a lug nut to hold the rotor in place.\u00a0 Put a dab of Loctite on the bracket mounting bolts, then replace the caliper mounting bracket.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Put a dab of Red Loctite on the caliper attaching bolts.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Bracket in place, ready for pads.<\/p><\/div>\n
Install the pads.\u00a0 The front pads fit into the notches on the mounting bracket.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The pads fit into the slots on the bracket.<\/p><\/div>\n
Take one of your old pads and the C clamp and push the pistons back all the way so the caliper will fit over the new thicker pads.<\/p>\n
<\/a>With a old pad in place you can push back both pistons without damaging them.<\/p><\/div>\n
Put the caliper back on over the pads, and install the two attaching bolts.\u00a0 Re-attach the Anti-Lock sensor wire and you\u2019re done except for putting the wheel back on.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Caliper back on, ready for wheel.<\/p><\/div>\n
Now on to the rear brakes.\u00a0\u00a0 The rears don\u2019t require removing the caliper bracket, but, the installation of the pads is a bit tricky on the rears.<\/p>\n
Start by removing the 2 bolts that hold the caliper to the mounting bracket with a 10mm wrench.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Two bolts and the caliper is ready to come off.<\/p><\/div>\n
Next, remove the caliper and the pads together by pulling the top of the caliper out first then the bottom.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/a>Tip the top of the caliper out first, then the bottom. This will be reversed for installing after pads are replaced.<\/p><\/div>\n
Remove the rotor.\u00a0 Because of rust between the hub and the rotor this can be a chore. \u00a0I find that getting a good heavy pry bar behind the rotor and striking the rotor with a brass\u00a0 hammer will usually break it loose.\u00a0\u00a0 Put the new rotor on observing the L or R scribed on the rotor.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Rotor in place, now to the pads.<\/p><\/div>\n
The rear has a different inboard and outboard pad.\u00a0\u00a0 In the inboard (on the right in the photo below) pad has retaining clip in the center back of the pad.\u00a0 That clip goes inside of the recess in the brake piston.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Outboard on the left, inboard pad on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n
Pry the outboard pad first.\u00a0 I found that putting a screwdriver between the clip and the caliper and bending the clip out away from the caliper (basically hyper extending the spring clip so it didn\u2019t move all the way back) made it much easier to get the outboard pad out.\u00a0 Once the outboard pad is clear, you can pull the inboard pad straight out of the piston.\u00a0 To put the pads back in, reverse this process, inboard pad first, then the outboard.\u00a0 Reinstall the caliper, putting the bottom in first then the top.\u00a0 Carefully check the tabs on the pads to make sure they engage the mounting bracket ways:<\/p>\n
Bottom:<\/p>\n