How to work on your Brakes

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Lees Summit, Missouri, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) February 3, 2012 --

Brakes are the most common wear parts to go bad on your car. As you drive and use your brakes it wears a brake pad or shoe. Abrake pad or shoe is easily replaceable and can range from $20-$50 bucks on average for the part. As the brake pads or shoes wear they rub on a brake rotor if it has disc brakes or a brake drum if it has shoes. The rotor can wear out over time from heat and use. If you allow your Brakes to wear all the material off the pad then the metal backing plate starts grinding into your rotor or drum. Usually if you hear a grinding noise coming from your brakes you need pads and rotors.If you have a front wheel drive car your brakes on the front of the car wear out many times faster that the back brakes.

If you have like a truck or SUV its a little more even front to back. If you know how to change a tire brakes are usually not much harder especially disc brakes. Once you take your wheel off you can see the round brake disc and caliper. The caliper squeezes the brake pad against the rotor the stop your car. To check your brake pads simply look at the pad and see how much material is left between the rotor and the pad backing plate. You can always get a set of pads to compare too. If they look thin replace as they get real thin they heat up and don’t stop you very good. If your pedal ever pulsates when you hit the the brakes almost always your front brake rotors are warped.

On a lot of front wheel cars all you need to to replace the rotor is take of the caliper and the caliper mounting bracket if it in the way, two bolts each usually. New rotors have anti-corrosion oil on them and need to be prayed of with Brake cleaner before you install them. To push your caliper back in so you have room to put your pads in use a big C clamp or big pliers. Some caliper do use larger sized Allen or Torx bits for the caliper bolts, other than that all the rest of the tools you need are very common. You can save hundreds of dollars by doing your own brakes all you need is a little mechanical dexterity.

Written by/Jeremy Jennings

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