Hello John Talley here with partzilla.com. Today I'm going to show
you how to change out your front brake pads on our 2016 Polaris Ranger 900 XP.
Pretty simple to do, give me a couple of minutes to get this behemoth lifted up,
take off that front tire ,and I'll show you how to get it done.
Alright guys this is gonna be a skill level one, so it's not going to be that
tough. Let's go over some of the tools that you're going to need to pull this
off. Really short list: five millimeter Allen, fifteen millimeter socket, a 19
millimeter socket, a decent 3/8 ratchet, a good torque wrench, a breaker bar, and
then a c-clamp. You'll see how that comes into play later. Now as far as the parts?
If you would reference our parts diagrams that'll give you an exploded
view of what we're going to be working on. That way you can go ahead and place
your order to get the pieces that you're gonna need to fix this successfully. So
once you've got your tools and your parts together, we can go over to the
machine and I can show you how to get it done.
Alright before we get it lifted up, I want to go ahead and at least break
these loose but don't remove them all the way. I mean I'm gonna use the jack to
lift it up and then I will be using jack stands because this thing is basically,
well, a car. I mean it weighs right out 1,400 pounds. I don't know about you but
I'm not gonna trust just the jack to hold it in place. I'm actually gonna get
the jack stands up under it as well. There. Alright let's go and get this
tire the rest the way off. Just do an initial inspection, the the rotor looks
to be good. The pads? They're getting pretty worn so it was definitely time to
go ahead and get them replaced. Alright, first thing we need to do is back out on
this pad adjuster. Do it a couple of turns, you can just take it all
the way out. Either way, we'll go ahead back it out. What I typically like to do
is when I get to put it back together, you're gonna go all the way in, and then
back it out about half a turn. And since I don't want it to fall all the way out
typically put some either blue or red Loctite on it just to make sure it
doesn't fall all the way out. Alright, with that, we can go ahead and remove our
caliper bracket from the hub itself and these are 15 millimeters. Want to just
bring off the entire assembly. When you do this be careful not to pull on the
brake line too hard. I mean it can stand to be moved around a little bit, but you
don't want to you can't get real hard and damage it. Now we want to set it up
here and just using a regular C clamp we're going
push the pistons back in. You may have to go side to side like I'm having to do.
Alright let's take that all the way back. Now push your carrier all the way in and
now you can just lift the pads off like that. Alright, before we put it back
together, we want to inspect these boots make sure there's no rips in them.
Ok what we're gonna pull these all the way out, take the boots off, clean them up
a little bit, and then re-grease these pins and put it back together.
Any dirt gets in there, your caliper isn't gonna move smoothly so we want to
make sure that this is greased and clean. I know that's an oxymoron but yeah, fully
greased, free of dirt. There we go. The type of grease, this one's actually made by
Kawasaki. Love this stuff. It's waterproof and high temperature and that's what
you're looking for. And what I'm doing here is just using a pick tool on the
inside to get that over that edge, kind of rotate it, and make sure it's grabbed
that inner edge all the way around. Now you need to do the same thing for that
edge on the caliper bracket. Be very careful not to poke a hole in it. I'm
gonna lift it up over the edge while you're pushing in. Now let's go ahead and
grab our new brake pads and get them in. They're exact copies of each other so
there isn't an inside and outside. Open them up just a tick, Let's slide them
back over that rotor. Now we can get the carrier bolts back in.
They're snug down. Let's go ahead and torque them and these actually want 30
foot pounds. Alright before you put in your your pad adjustment screw, let's go
ahead and pump the brakes back up and then we'll set it. Now we're gonna take
just a little bit of Threadlocker. Take it all the way in, until the bottoms out,
and then back it up half a turn. So that's bottom, right there. Alright,
caliper setup and ready to go. Now let's just get that tire back on there. To get
these things torqued down, you may want to go ahead and set your
machine down but actually I want to go and get this one finished because this is
very important. If you have a unit like this one that has aluminum wheels, here's
what you have to do. You initially take it to 30 foot pounds, then you actually
take it an additional 90 degrees. Now if you have the steel wheels, you just take
it to 36 foot-pounds and you're done. But the aluminum requires a little bit more.
So I'd recommend, you know, just go ahead and dropping it down and torquing
while it's sitting on the ground. I still have that other side to do so I'm gonna
have somebody just hold the brakes and I'm going to go ahead and set the torque
on this one. Alright, so we've got our 30 foot pounds, now we need to take it
another 90 degrees. It's from here to about right here. So get you a mark and
away we go. Alright release it. Alright take it.
Release. Take it. Alright, that is torqued like it's supposed to be.
So if you've just been putting your wheels on just with a 3/8 inch ratchet I
guarantee you haven't been getting them tight enough. That's what it takes to do
it all right. We just need to do the other three. Alright guys, that pretty
much wraps up. This side the other side is the exact same procedure, even have
the same part number. And once you've finished it and you've lowered your
vehicle back down, take it out and actually bed the breaks in. The process
is actually running it up to about 30 miles an hour and bringing it down to
not a complete stop, but slowing it down. You want to do that about five or
six times and then let the machine, you know, cool off as far as the rotors. Once
you've done that you're going to be ready to go. Listen if you need any the
parts that we use to do this, why don't you come see us at partzilla.com and we can
get you taken care of. If you have any questions or comments, leave them in the
section below and I'll do my best to answer them. Until next time we just want
to say thanks for watching.