I once installed a reman Honda caliper from Nappa. I always check the pin bore for old grease that might have gotten missed at the factory. Good thing I did, because I found a half of a red shop towel jammed behind a plug of old grease. The crazy thing is they stuck a shorter pin in to compensate for the towel and grease plug. Even if it's a fresh reman, always check the bore.
@AutomedicGarage I used to work on a fleet of F550s with some random F450s and F350s. I always was pulling the slider pins out and doing exactly what you did there. I did use a different caliper grease. Some high-falootin’, purple permatex grease. We changed brakes so often that O’Reilly’s ran out of pads. Ford has dibs on the pads before everyone else the O’Reilly’s rep told me. Should probably do a fluid flush video. Hell, maybe I will!
Good gawd, I can't believe anyone ignores sliders. Up here in the Rust Belt, we pull them and regrease them twice a year, on winter/summer tire change over.
tell ya what man its 10x easier to do a bracket service on the bench, 2-4 bolts and 5 seconds of your time. when the brackets get really built up with rust i use a needle scaler to break it all down and have a nice clean surface for the new hardware.
GREAT VIDEO.....VERY GOOD INFORMATION.....I DO LUBE MINE.....BUT I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT TAKING OFF THE RUBBER TIP AND CLEANING UNDERNEATH IT.....B-T-W.....WOULD IT BE OKAY TO USE A SMALL GUN BARREL BRUSH ON THE INSIDE LIKE YOU USED THE DRILL BIT?....
I once installed a reman Honda caliper from Nappa. I always check the pin bore for old grease that might have gotten missed at the factory. Good thing I did, because I found a half of a red shop towel jammed behind a plug of old grease. The crazy thing is they stuck a shorter pin in to compensate for the towel and grease plug. Even if it's a fresh reman, always check the bore.
It won't be too long until you're in the hundreds of thousands of subs
@AutomedicGarage I used to work on a fleet of F550s with some random F450s and F350s. I always was pulling the slider pins out and doing exactly what you did there. I did use a different caliper grease. Some high-falootin’, purple permatex grease. We changed brakes so often that O’Reilly’s ran out of pads. Ford has dibs on the pads before everyone else the O’Reilly’s rep told me.
Should probably do a fluid flush video. Hell, maybe I will!
I'd probably rob one of the wire brushes from my gun cleaning kit instead of using a drill bit. That and some WD40 or some other rust solvent.
Good gawd, I can't believe anyone ignores sliders. Up here in the Rust Belt, we pull them and regrease them twice a year, on winter/summer tire change over.
Great video! You sound just like Hank from King of the Hill 💯
tell ya what man its 10x easier to do a bracket service on the bench, 2-4 bolts and 5 seconds of your time. when the brackets get really built up with rust i use a needle scaler to break it all down and have a nice clean surface for the new hardware.
I hope that wasn't Bubba's truck.
GREAT VIDEO.....VERY GOOD INFORMATION.....I DO LUBE MINE.....BUT I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT TAKING OFF THE RUBBER TIP AND CLEANING UNDERNEATH IT.....B-T-W.....WOULD IT BE OKAY TO USE A SMALL GUN BARREL BRUSH ON THE INSIDE LIKE YOU USED THE DRILL BIT?....
@@councilquirks6601 yea I would assume it would be ok but these were really gummed up and stiff
I had to do that on my son’s Grand Cherokee, the pins were really rusted in, I didn’t have an air chisel so it took me a while, great video Sir 👍😁
Good reminder and how to for brake maintenance. Thank you.
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