Hey guys what's up GarageKing here and today I'm going to show you how to do
the front brakes on a 2014 Hyundai Santa Fe, please stay tuned until the end
because I'm gonna show you all the tools that you need to properly do the job and if
you have any questions let me know for now let's get started so let's lift
this vehicle up, let's yank this front wheel off and let's get going. Okay so we
have the wheel off now and I'm gonna show you some some tips for doing a good
brake job. Now firstly if we just pan in right here you will see that the brake
rotors on this Hyundai Sante Fe, in the front, have two little phillips
bolts so you have to make sure that you you take those out and then on the back
here these are 14mm and if the pin spins when you're undoing this nut
what you do is you just put a little wrench in there to hold it and then
it'll come right out and then if we just go over here, let's get some lighting
there we go right there those are 17mm so
we've got 14mm, 17mm, Philips, and that's really all we need in terms of
general tools and then I'll show you how to clean everything and then we're gonna
put everything all back together and it'll look ok so another tip of mine is to
turn the wheel so you can have as much room as you can in the back. If you have
the wheel straight it's really hard to reach in behind there and do things so
with the wheel turned it's actually quite easy to to get in the back so as I
mentioned before a 14mm for the outer caliper bolts if you
want to call then that, and I use an air tool so it makes it a lot easier but nothing
wrong with wrenching them off by hand now once we do that we can pull the caliper
right off now another good tip don't let the caliper just hang
like this because this little rubber piece it's got some nylon on the inside
this the outer rubber is just for protection so what you should always do
is just grab something to make something where you can actually hang it
so what we can do is grab something like this so we can attach it to the top of
the shock there on the spring and then through through the center there and
then this way what it'll do is it won't let it hang on the rubber so now you're
actually hanging on there and that's what's supporting the caliper so now
we're going to take off the caliper bolts we have our 17mm and it is a
little tight but it does go in there and
I'm just gonna show you we don't have much clearance so when we go on to the
bolt there you can actually see it's touching that strut right there and then
we can just barely slip it on that's that's the problem so we're gonna use
the ratchet here just to undo it and then what we're gonna do is wrench it
out there we go nice and tight so we're gonna wrench it only a few times cuz we
don't wanna our ratchet to get stuck in there like I showed you earlier so now
we're gonna actually take our 17mm wrench and we're just gonna wrench it
out
the other thing I've sometimes you'll notice in the video I have bare hands
when I'm showing certain things and that's just to start and stop the camera
but when I'm actually working and doing the job I try, I guess as much as I can
always to wear gloves just to protect yourself, so another tip wear
protective gloves it's good for your skin so you want to wear
gloves there you go we take this off and now we got we got the caliper bracket
off so that is great okay so now we're gonna take the rotor off and we can see
we have these two Phillips bolts they look like number three so I have a
little adapter that goes on to the end of my gun but there are tools you can
get where if you hammer it'll twist them out or conversely you can just try with
a screwdriver some of the screwdrivers that you can buy are square and you can
put a little wrench on them and turn them I'm lucky I have a gun I guess so
that that helps me take them out so they actually they're not tight at all
they're just set screws I meant to hold the rotor and one of the nice thing
about these set screws is when you're reassembling the brakes you don't have
to put a nut on to hold the rotor in place because these set screws will hold
it in place so that's kind of nice okay so now we're gonna pull off the rotor
and we notice it is stuck even with the set screws I cannot get it undone so
we're gonna take a little hammer and we're just gonna give it a good whack at
the back and that should pop free I'm just gonna give it
and we can see it is quite stuck so we're gonna use some penetrating oil okay so
we have our penetrating oil just like wd-40 we're just gonna put a little bit
on the hub that's really where it gets stuck let that sit up for just a second
or two so now we can pull this rotor off
just like so okay next tip and what you should do
with every brake job as you can see right where the rotor sits the mating
surface here it's quite rusty right there and as you saw it's tough to get
our rotor off sometimes we have it off so you can either take just a wire brush
I happen to have a little air tool here so this thing will spin around and it'll
clean it so whatever you have as long as you do your best just to clean here to
get everything off wear safety gear mask just so you can protect yourself
okay so now that we have the caliper bracket out we're gonna pull the pads
out sometimes I've got to bang them up with a hammer
these ones I can get out there you go you can see all the dirt just falling
out we're gonna pull our guides out here and we have our new our new pads right
here now to prevent breaks squeak this is a tip what you can do is you can you
can spray the new ones and when you spray them they're less likely to squeak
because there's an adhesive on it that makes it actually stick to the caliper
itself so then they don't rattle around and cause a squealing noise.
Its "brake be quiet" spray I guess if you want to call it that and this one had a shim
so we can actually reuse the shim there you go if we want we can put the shim on
there and that may help it as well sometimes when you have factory shims
it's a good idea to reuse them because they actually help quite a
bit with brake squeal and you can see there's two tabs right there and once we
put the factory shim on there you can see the two tabs will show right through
it again so nice to do but let's spray it first like we said now what we
have to do to here which is very important is we have to clean it so we
have these two pins now if you have a pin that's stuck or a pin that's tight
or doesn't want to move as freely as you other pin this one's not bad and this
one's actually this one's a little tight I can feel it
what'll happen is your brake pads will wear unevenly, so good tip is to take the
pins out and make sure we clean it a little bit this one's not bad and you
can see there's actually still quite a bit of stuff on it so we always want to
do this with every brake job you want to take the pins out and make sure you
clean them well so we can do one at a time we'll just clean this one out
we want to make sure we put some brake lubricant in here this one's a very high
end it says ceramic extreme brake lubricant so that's great
because it didn't come out all rusty we don't have to worry about rust being
there so what we're gonna do is open it up I'm just gonna take a little
bit out I'm gonna actually put it inside you'll need a you'll need a long
screwdriver to do this now we can do is we take our pin and we're just gonna
pretend we're in art class and we're gonna do some painting there you go so
now we're gonna paint it all nice and make sure it's fully lubricated and when
we got it back in we want to make sure we're careful not to get it all around
all around the edges and stuff like that because we're gonna have stuff fall in
so you almost want to just get it right in there just like that
so there we go just like that
and our pin is in just like that perfect now we're gonna do we're gonna do the
other one this one's a little tighter but it is coming out, sometimes I got to
take them in the vise to get them out but this one actually came out and it
has a little bit of Lube on it which is good so shows it's not completely dried
out there now sometimes this one what happened is in this in these grooves let
me see if I can get you some better lighting here there I just needed to get
some better lighting because it's important to show you this so you can
see it's corroded there and there's a bunch of dirt in there now what happens
is the rubber boot seal sits on there but if it's not clean what can happen is
a bunch of dirt from the outside will get in and moisture will get it from the
outside and then it it drives and it corrodes a pin one thing I want to
mention when you're cleaning the caliper pins is these little grooves that you
see in there you can see those little grooves you have to make sure that those
are full of grease now you can see they're just full of grease and you can
see on this other pin there's actually flat spots so you want to make sure you
get grease into those flat spots and I'll show you what I mean I'm gonna
grease it up right now and I will show you how it should look when
it's done and there we can see this pins all greased up and all those flat spots
are totally full so your pins should be nice and greased up now we're just gonna
Now we are going to take our wire wheel. Wear a mask and you can use a brush if you don't have
have an air tool we're just gonna clean out where the where the pads actually
sit right there it's hard with the lighting I know right there and there's
just a little dirty so we're just gonna clean it out not a big deal
cleaned out good so now we're just gonna put some anti-seize on and its
important we should put this on steel to steel components and this this isn't the same
stuff I used on the pins this is that silver kind of stuff you can buy
and what it is, is this is for steel on steel contact now the new pads come with
some shims
same thing we're gonna put a little bit anti-seize here where the pads ride now
we want to see how good our pads fit now we haven't sprayed them yet we haven't
sprayed them at all we're going to spray them but I just want to see make sure
how good they fit because sometimes if they're really really tight it means
that these may not be cleaned well enough or sometimes just for
manufacturing of the pads and you may have to shave a wee bit off the pad just
to make it fit so I always like to just pre fit everything first yeah and these
ones are they fit great so now what we're gonna do to prevent brake squeal
is we're just gonna spray them so the factory shim is a really good shim this
one still had it so what we're gonna do, is we're gonna reinstall it because it
definitely doesn't hurt just like that you can see where the tabs lined up
there's one to have there and one tab there so everything's lined up nicely
we're gonna give that factory shim a little bit of spray on the back
different first there you go now we're gonna load our pads back into our
caliper so now we're gonna put the rotor back on so we know it's all cleaned up
which is nice so what we're gonna do is we're just gonna put some anti-seize
yeah another TIP!!! Steel rotor, I guess they're all steel but this one's a
coated rotor so you can see it actually has a coating on it to protect it from
rust so we don't have to spray it down with brake clean unless we get dirt all
over it but if your rotors a bare steel rotor and it comes just exposed metal
you should always be spraying them down with brake clean because when you wipe
that you're gonna get all the oil off because they they always put a thin
coating of oil and what that does is it protects it from rusting when it's
sitting in the in the parts department so but these ones are coated so you
don't have to worry and now here we have our set screws to put in so normally
like I had mentioned earlier what you can do is you can put a nut on but on
these ones we actually don't have them because this rotor has set screws that
go in there we go so now that that's on what we're gonna do is we're going to
take our bracket that we loaded with our our brake pads and we're going to slide
that over now like I says if we didn't have these centering pins it's better to
put a nut on because then the rotor flops around and it's hard you'll be
using your knee to support the rotor now I just put the bolts in I like to do,
everything hand tight. I use my hands now some people use air tools but I say you
should always start everything by hand I actually use my air tools to take apart
to everything just because it's a little bit quicker and it's easier on the
body but I find that when I'm putting things back together I like to use just
my arm strength I don't I don't really care to use their tools to put things
back together and the reason for that is it's just you don't know the proper
torque when you're using an air tool and it's too easy to over tighten something
or maybe under tighten something. Maybe you think it's tight enough but its not and
when you do everything by hand you can actually feel it and you can
tell okay now we're in the back here and we can see there's the bolt that I just
twisted in by hand that's a 17mm here's the other one right here so
that's the other we're just gonna line it up so we can make sure that we get it
in there all right is we'll just pop this other pad in here just like so
there we go and now we're ready to put the caliper but before we put the
caliper back on we have to push the piston back in the caliper the piston
back in the caliper so we gotta grab our caliper from behind we have it right
here we're gonna take out our cord that we're using to hold it just give it a
little wipe and there we go let's put the caliper back on so we've pushed in
the piston we've cleaned, it's nice and clean so now we're gonna
Center it over our brake pads we're gonna push our pins in just like so
there we go one more pin to Center in a little bit there we go
there we go just make sure you give it a wiggle nothing's binding everything is
good we got our two 12mm bolts so one in the top just like that and one in the
bottom just like so those are the ones we showed earlier and then once again
we're just gonna hand tighten them just there we go
and we are all done Hyundai Santa Fe front brakes, all done with my tips
so there you can see we're all done we've put a little bit of anti-seize in
the center there just when we put our wheel in that's another little tip so
this way it's easier to take our wheel on and off if you like my videos please
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you want to know anything or you have any questions let me know ok folks so
these are the tools that I use so I used a hammer to bang off the rotor #3 Phillips
you can get either a screwdriver I use this it's just an
adapter that goes on to a ratchet long small screwdriver to put lube and where
the caliper pins go number 14mm and number 17mm swivel, now I just use those for the
air tools to get off you don't need it but what you do need is a number 14mm and
a number 17mm socket so as long as you have a 14mm and 17mm socket you're
okay number 17mm wrench you need that for the back
I used a number I believe it's 22mm or sorry 21mm so 21mm to get the wheel
off and then yeah our caliper lube, anti-seize, brake spray for the back of the pads
and some penetrating fluid. If you don't have a pneumatic wire wheel you
can just use a brush and then a cord to hang it so those are all the tools we
use. This one you don't really need but it's really really nice to have when you
ratcheted it just opens up and that's what spreads the piston apart
sorry about that noise in the background I think it's garbage day so that's a nice
to have tool if you do have it but that's it if you like my videos please
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