Just gonna remove the Brake Calipers here because I'm gonna be painting them red now
This is a 2016 Toyota Tacoma so if you look here let me get into the back here
you can see where the brake line goes into the back of the caliper, follow it
up there's a brake line there right there and then there's your brake hose
so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna undo this here remove the whole caliper and
then we're gonna plug this now normally I wouldn't really advise clipping the
brake line like this what what this is is it's just a vise grip it's not tight
but just enough to slow down the leak of the fluid but once I know what thread it
is in there I'm gonna put a plug in there and that'll prevent it from
leaking and then this way we can take this off properly clean it and then
properly paint it because I mean you can put tape and a garbage bag and
everything over there but it just doesn't get you a really good a really
good and clear job on it so we want to take the whole caliper off. Plus this way
we can service everything clean it all nice alright now I've loosen the brake
line as you can see right there trying to get light there so I loosened it so I
can actually turn it with my hand just like this so it's fully loose now I
don't want to pull it out because then I'm gonna bend this I'm gonna Bend this
tube so I'm actually gonna undo the bolts right right behind here you can
see there's one right there and then there's one on the bottom and it looked
like 17mml bolts, take those out and we're gonna lift the whole thing out
this way we can keep this intact without bending it so it should go on nice and
easy now you can see I've just lifted the caliper off I've left this on
without bending it so I'm actually gonna just take it all apart I'm gonna clean
up this whole thing and now if you look behind here I've just put a little plug
in there so that's good that's all we need to do we need to plug it so there's
a no leakage of brake food no matter if you can see I'm actually doing a oil
change on as well so I might as well just let the oil drain fully that's
about it now we're just gonna take it to the bench take it apart we're gonna
paint it okay and here we have it taken apart you can actually see the pads
right there there's the caliper now we're gonna take a
a wire wheel or a pad I'm going to show you in a minute we're gonna try to get
all this clean and also what it'll do is it'll take the roughness out so it's
gonna make it real smooth so we get a nice finish now if you notice the one
thing I did do which is quite important we left the I guess steel hose on if you
would what I did is I put a bleeder cover on there so this way when we're
doing all our cleaning all our painting any small particles nothing's gonna be
able to get actually inside the caliper and then once we're ready to mount it
we're going to just pop this off we're gonna screw it back in and we'll have to
bleed the brake section so here's one I haven't taken apart this one yet but
I've taken this one apart now sometimes the pins can get a little bit tough to
get out you just take a hammer got here a little punch and then once you take
these out they come up quite easily then you can just take your your hammer you
just push them out
okay so I have the calipers all nicely cleaned now what I did here is I just
took them clean them up with a wire wheel but as I mentioned earlier we want
to polish them so I'll try to get in close you can see all these fine
I guess it's castings just from the castings I want to sort of polish it so
you don't have a rough look when I'm done I won't be able to polish the whole
thing but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna polish what you see which is I'm gonna
work on this outside here so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna turn over here and
I'm gonna show you you can buy these type of things and what these are is
they're aggressive so I use my wire wheels to clean them up the different
wire wheels there's the air tools I use just to just clean them up but now I'm
gonna use these and what that'll do is that's gonna actually eat away at the
surface and it's just gonna polish them up all right now I just want to show you
guys I have my adapter on don't forget to wear eye protection and respirator
something I just use a little 3m mask but you can see here remember how I told
you it's all rough there and I just want to
see there in the light how it's taking it right off so what we can do
we're just gonna polish it now the sun rays reflecting on it but it's very very
shiny so what I'm gonna do is on the front part mainly and just up here where
you might see it a bit I'm just gonna use this and then I'm just gonna polish
it down and that'll give it when I paint it's gonna give a really nice finish
okay folks oh I got them all cleaned up as best I can you can see they're
actually polished up quite nicely I'll get over that in the area there so it's
not perfect you can see there's still some casting ridges in there but overall
it's pretty good now what I did actually as I found some old seat Clips here for
adjusting adjusting seats like when you pull them back so this way there's no
way it can fall off and take a look at this so I'm hanging my calipers from the
lawnmower now I may have to put some weight on the front of a lot more when I
get them both hanging but this way I'll be able to paint them quite easily and
I'll be able to get to every angle we'll get a really nice finish out of them and
there you can see I got the first coat on and actually they look they turned
out really really nice take the inside so if you don't want to get paint on the
inside I was actually a little lazy on the second one and you can see there I
didn't even bother taping them but I think it looks pretty good I just sort
of avoided the middle but they're just about ready for the second coat and then
I actually have clear I'm gonna put on them good you said a lot more okay so
this is four coats of clear are sorry four coats of red and two coats of clear
and as you can see they actually turned out it turned out really really nice
and a lawnmower worked great for for holding them a sunny day so it's nice
for getting them to dry, and now I'm gonna wait good few hours let them harden up
nice secure I know on the directions it said three hours before handling them, I'll
untape the insides and then I'll reinstall them okay so now I've just
mounted the caliper back on then as you can see it's mounted back onto the truck
I've connected the mine I still have to bleed them as you can see well it's
tough to see there but there's no pads in here I can actually just put my
fingers in on each side there's no pads in there yet I'll just
have to drop the pads in and put the pins in not a terribly hard job and I
think they came out really good wish the lighting was better on this final video
here. Thanks :)