Ice Pick to push out the pins after removing cottar pins



Push back pads with towel and large pliers



Remove shims



Watch brake fluid level



Clean parts




Apply brake squeal reducer on back of pads and shims and insert after 10 minutes



Cottar pin



Place spring and insert second pin and cottar


Done



Move to the back...but now the pins come towards you





Use 130 or so grit to sand the rust from the hubs where the wheels make contact and clean the old brake material off of the rotors...per instructions on hawk hps sight. Now bed your pads per manufactures directions. Mine were approx 8 moderate force stops from 35 and 2-3 hard stops from 45, then let brakes cool.

 

Great writeup and excellent pictures, dothemath!

Your guide should make it easy enough for anyone to change their pads.

I need a little magic to help change my pads... I want to change them from 2005 no-name pads to pads for Brembos... I keep running into threads where someone bought an old pair of brembos cheap, but I never find them before they are gone.

Anyway, nice guide!!!

 

Excellent write up, Robert. I appreciate the pictures you've included with this as well...

 

Great write up and photos.

 

awesome write up, thanks for the photos!

 

good write up and great work

 

Good write up anyone looking for pads that reduce all that powder try the ebc green pads. They stop on the dime and you never see anything on the wheels.

 

EBC's will eat the stock Brembo rotors eventually, so stay away from those. Go with the Hawks.

One thing when moving the pistons; try two shims or use the old pad with a slight push. That will make sure that both pistons move the same distance back into the caliper and you will not have uneven pressure on the new pads or rotors when you hit the brake pedal.

 

Just out of curiousity, how many miles did you have on it and did you have the rotors resurfaced?

Oh yeah, what did you use to clean the calipers? Mine are clean on the outside, but I'm pretty sure that inside, they're nasty. Can you use wheel cleaner on the rotors when the pads are off? Run water over them?

 

22000 miles and had just under half of the pad material left. I wanted new pads before my next track day at Sebring. I sanded the rotors a bit with 100 grit sand paper to remove some of the old pad material per Hawks sight instructions, then washed with soap and water. I was also told by an Infiniti mechanic that the Brembo rotors should not be turned.

I cleaned everything with carwash soap and water...thats it. A large bucket for the fronts and a new mixed bucket for the back. Some have said that the hawks pads did not just slide in, but after sticking my finger in the caliper with a soapy rag and got the cleaning done...they fit just fine.

I have only bedded the pads and have not driven the car in the last couple of days.... But they did not squeal while I was doing my stops during the bedding process, nor was there any vibration.

Thanks to everyone for the positive comments as well

 

correct: you can't turn the Brembo rotors as they have virtually no tolerance for turns. Since you can't do that, stay away from the EBC's as what is really going on with those is that the EBC Greenstuf pad is too "hard" for the Brembo rotor surface. Depending on which factory the Brembo rotor came from (and the metal composition used when it was made), the rotor will "groove" badly with the EBC's. I know this from experience.

 

So what is the recommended rotor to replace the OEM Brembo rotors with? Go with OEM or another make?

 

awesome write up with pics, this will be of great help to alot of us. damn u made it look so easy! i might go with either hawks or project mU pads.

 

I am going to go with the stoptech stage II upgrade kit. two piece slotted "aerorotors", steel braided lines, pads, and fluid for like 1500.00. Then next time you need rotors, you just replase the rotor rings not the hats and it only cost about 450.00. I think this is only an option for Brembo equipped cars...oh and they are light than stock too.

 

I got the Project Mu dimpled and slotted rotors and I loved those. I combined them with the Hawk pads. I tried the Project Mu pads, but they squeaked just a tad too much for me.