Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com.
Today I'm gonna show you how to change out the front brake pads on our 2007 Suzuki GSX-R1000.
Pretty simple to do, I just need to grab a couple of tools, go ahead and lift it up in
the air, and then I'll show you how to get it done.
Alright, this is going to be a skill level one, so it's really going to be very simple.
As far as the tools you're going to need, just need a decent flat-blade screwdriver,
a 5mm Allen, a 12mm socket, a decent ratchet, and then a good torque wrench.
Now as far as the parts, if you would reference our parts diagrams, go pick out what you need,
get that, get your tools together, then I'll meet you over at the machine and show you
how to get it done.
Alright.
let's start by breaking loose these two pins that actually go through the brake pads.
A whole lot easier to do it up here when it's actually mounted to the fork.
Otherwise, it would be kinda tough to hold it still.
So you don't have to take them all the way out, just break them loose.
After that, just a couple of 12mm that actually mount the caliper to the fork assembly.
With certain manufacturers, they actually have you replace these bolts.
These with Suzuki you can actually reuse them.
Alright, these are about half-worn.
I know from a previous job we did that we had leaking fork seals.
So, basically this side's not that bad but that left side-- it was almost completely
saturated from the fork fluid.
alright, before we put the new ones in, let's go ahead and compress the pistons back inside
the calipers.
Since we are replacing these pads it's really not going to matter than I'm scarring them
up with a screwdriver.
Alright, that looks like it.
Now with them compresses all the way in, we can go ahead and remove those two pins that
we broke loose earlier.
When you remove the pins, make sure they're not worn too much.
another thing that makes it a little bit easier is to put a little pressure on them because
there's actually, I guess you could call it a spring on the backside of them that's trying
to push them up.
So you push them in a little bit and it makes it easier to take the pins out.
After that, they just drop straight out.
And if you look in here you can see what the screwdriver did to these, so, yeah, you wouldn't
want to do that to a brand new pair.
Before we put these on I just want to show you this line that's cut in here.
If you can't see that line, that means it's worn all the way down to that point, and that
is the absolute furthest that you'll want to let these pads wear before you replace
them.
So we've got our pins cleaned up, let's go ahead and get these new pads in there.
Now, let's put a little pressure on them against those springs.
Slide the pins back in.
Get those in just hand-tight.
And we want to carefully slide them on the pins and get it from the backside like this.
Get them spread all the way open where we can get them back on the rotor.
Now we can put our 12mm bolts back in.
And now, we want to torque those two to 28 foot-pounds.
And we want to go back to our two pins and put those to 12 foot-pounds.
Alright, that finishes up this side, now we just need to do the exact same thing on the
left side.
Alright, before we get started on the left side, show you at home, oil all over this
one from where that was leaking before.
So definitely needed to get these replaced.
Just like the other side, break these pins loose and we'll pull out those 12mm bolts.
While we've got it hung down, going to go ahead and kick out the pads and I'm going
to clean this up a little bit because it is just grimy.
Man, look at these pads, they were so glazed over with oil.
Look at that crap.
I don't think they were hardly doing anything at all.
See how shiny that looks?
It almost filled up that gap in between the two pads.
Yuck.
This doesn't need to be perfect, I just want to clean it up a little bit.
Now granted I'm spraying this with a little bit of reckless abandon, getting some on my
farings, but trust me, we're about to replace these, but if that was a new faring, I would
not be doing this.
I'd have it covered up.
Alright, we've got it cleaned up reasonably well.
Let's go ahead and get our pads back in.
Carefully push the pads all the way back.
Like I said, you may have to go on the backside here to get them under that spring.
Swing it around, and go back on.
Once again we're at 28.
Then 12 for the two pins.
Alright, we've got everything bolted back down and torqued, there's one more thing you
need to do before you go out for a ride: go ahead and pump these back up.
Too many times I've seen people just hop on and go, and guess what?
They find they don't have any brakes.
Takes it a good five to ten pulls for it to finally pressure up.
Alright guys, with that done, we are finished.
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