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Install New Brake Pads and Compress Pistons

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Fixing Squeeky brakes

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What happens here

Carefully slide the new, greased brake pads into the new hardware clips on the caliper bracket, ensuring they are seated correctly and can move freely. Next, to accommodate the thicker new brake pads, the hydraulic pistons in the caliper need to be fully compressed. For calipers with multiple pistons (like the one shown in the video), a specialized brake caliper piston compressor tool is recommended to push both pistons back simultaneously and evenly. For single-piston calipers, a large C-clamp with a piece of scrap wood can be used.

Goal: Slide the new brake pads into the greased hardware clips and then use a brake caliper piston compressor tool to push the hydraulic pistons back into the caliper housing.

Tools and materials

  • Brake Caliper Piston Compressor Tool

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squeaking. hardware. Now, all we have to do is seat the brake pads into the hardware. Next up, we'll need to push back our hydraulic cylinder so they can actually fit over our brand new beefy brake pads. Sedans and small SUVs usually only have one brake cylinder. You could just use a regular clamp and depress it into the seated position. However, due to the size of this truck, we have two of them. We have to compress them together. And to do so, all we're going to do is lay a scrap piece of wood and compress it from the

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