today I'm going to talk about one of the most oversold jobs on cars brake jobs
how do you know if your car really needs a brake job well I'm gonna show you
today no my customer here decided he wanted a brake job so he bought all the
parts front brake pads and rear brake pads and rotors so I'm gonna change them
up but I'm gonna show you how you can check to see if you really need it most
of these cars have Squealer pads you see there's little metal prong here and
we're not little metal prong touches the rotors in a squeal that means instead of
being thick and new like this the pads are so thin that it's time to change it
so you hear that squirrely grinding noise first thing you want to do is pull
off a wheel see up there just worn out so you want to jack it up in the air
have a handy just for safety now this particular one is thirteen millimeter we
go to the back side and there's a little bolt here we'll just stick it on and
then whack it off it comes once you get that bolt off I'll think flips up huh
there we go now as you can see is I really thick the
old ones then the ones are much different but he doesn't like the noise
of these cheaper ones made so he bought better pads so I'm gonna put these pads
on but if the customer were to have me inspect it I would have said you don't
need front pads and they said well they're making a noise I say well you
want to put better quality pads the noise will go away but they're thick
enough if they've got really thin so that they were thinnest say a nickel or
a dime they'd need changing but hey they're almost as thick as these brand
new ones well what the heck I'm gonna put the new ones on cuz he bought it's
an easy job they just flip up but before we put the new ones in we're gonna get
some of this brake caliper grease put a little bit on the ears so when you put
them in they slide smoothly that goes down under there that goes up and
it goes right down then we do the other side too as you can see now there's
ones on each side and we squeeze the piston back in alright as you can see
not squeeze then flush and just to be on the safe side
a little loop here where it wears and on the inside on the metal part of the
piston that your slides down you get you a little bolt
I'm stick it in make it finger tight then get your stick ten millimeter
socket that you get up nice and tight I put the wheel back on that as you can
see it spins freely it's not dragging or anything now of course you're gonna do
the right front too cuz you do them in pairs but we're gonna do that last now
we're gonna check the rear so jack up the rear they're gonna jack off it comes
now in this case it's so bad you can see the rotors all eaten up the pads are
down to the metal and the rotors are eating up so the costumer was smart he
already bought the rotors and the brake pads so we're gonna replace both the
pants and the rotor cuz it's all worn out chewed up it's rusted out anyways
I'm assuming this is a northern car at some point in time now this case is
little bigger it's 15 millimeter it goes on here and we're on screw in this case
there's a little lock nut on it so what we're gonna do is get these vise grip
pliers I clamp those on the lock not here then it'll keep it from spinning it
kept spinning now it's loose we can just keep turning it and I get the rest of my
fingers we got the bare socket and stick it on
there wow that sucker still on there it's amazing but finally we got it off slide
the caliper out of the way as we can see here this is all worn down perfectly to
the metal that's why it's all ground up as I pull up you can see super tight
there's hardly anything left here and it's all grooved and worn we're gonna
have to replace old rotor but to get that off we have to unbolt the caliper
mounting brackets there's two 18 millinery your bolts on the backside
here now these can be absolute stinkers to come out so I got a big 18 millimeter
wrench and a hammer we're gonna whack them off I'm joy we'll just head it
it's moving slowly but surely that's coming loose now we're gonna do the top
one it's up higher same thing whack it and it's starting to move you can use a
socket which is faster as you can see this is going to be a lot faster there's one hey the crows
are watching today I could come and now we're gonna get this off which could be
a stinker you can see it drops down we get the old hammer man it's on it's
gonna be fun so get out the old wd-40 spread all around here each one of these
that's so cool oh come on start whacking it moving a little so we're gonna move
this I do this and do it bit by bit and do another part get the old clunker off before we
go any further let's see if a new one fits right well let's not rush it it
fits perfect great now they coat these things with anti rust so clean that off
do the outside we'll take it off do the inside wipe it all off and put it on
don't we'll get the two mounting bolts stick them in the back here
now we're gonna last till they start going in there's one get that one and
got nice and tight yeah all I have to say for you know other mechanics I feel
sorry for you having to deal with this rusty crack all the time and I grew up
there I remember it but that was in the long past I like the nice Texas rust
free cars myself well of course you squeeze this caliper back in where is it
in yeah that shows the other one skill brake caliper grace put it on the ears
slip them in and do the back side I put a little grease on the caliper sound
back down the tiny bulb stick it on the back side and remember it'll slip so you
gotta put this back on on the inside I'll just put the wheel back on now I'm
not gonna film the other side cuz it's exactly the same left and right side
let's hope the right rear one isn't the stock is the left rear one better
probably is that's how it goes with northern cars but now at least you know
how to check your brakes how to replace them if they need replacing
and don't go for unnecessary repairs as I said on this vehicle the front pad
still had a lot of life in him but he bought them he wanted me to put them on
there making a little noise and these higher-quality pads will be quieter too
but let's say you don't care that much about noise you going and you find
they're thick you can just live with it it isn't going to hurt anything as long
as the pads are thick and it stops and there's no leakage and no lights or
anything are coming on because really with the economy the way it is today I
don't want a little bit that you can do yourself so you don't have to throw
money away on things that maybe don't need doing or you can easily do yourself
and there's some bonus questions and answers Tommy forty eight to ten says
I'm thinking about buying a 2018 Lexus NX 200t with 46,000 miles its 27 grand
from dealer what's your view okay well one never buy a car from a dealer they
charge way too much money that's just how it goes I personally am NOT a fan of
the NX 200t I do not like the 4-cylinder turbo Lexus
vehicles I work on them they're underpowered they rattle a lot and you
got a four-cylinder turbocharged engine it isn't gonna last if I'm gonna buy a
Lexus I'm gonna buy a v6 engine they got plenty of power they get decent cast my
especially on a highway I don't like their 4-cylinder turbos and I would
never pay $27,000 for a used one on the street you get them a lot cheaper but if
I were you I'd look at some of the six owned ones they're much nicer cars they
ride nicer they're bigger they're gonna last a lot longer not being turbocharged
I'd rethink it if I were you goali is in the
house says I got 2001 Honda Accord and the check engine lights on it's got p12
59 for the variable valve system it doesn't run just drive help I worked on
a lot of those the first thing you want to make sure is that your oil is clean
not dirty change it regularly because there's a VTEC solenoid and it's got a
little screener and will clog up with dirty oil I see that all the time but
valve body switch you want to replace that if the oil isn't dirty and
sometimes even if you change the oil that's dirty it still won't work then
you can at least take out the little valve just got bolts holding it in
simple thing and clean it all you might see the screen it's all clogged up with
crud you could clean the screen rather than replace it they're not super
expensive parts but you know a couple hundred bucks is a couple hundred bucks
and if you can take it out and clean up why not taha says Scotty what's the junkie
toyota you ever worked on or come across ok the junkiest one I ever
worked on was a Toyota Tercel I was working on here in Houston but the
customer had moved here three years previously from Cleveland Ohio the turcels
we mechanics used to jokingly call them turd sells cuz they were turd cells
mainly cuz they weren't the greatest cars they could run okay for a knock round
car but they didn't ride that ride engine said bed valve seals and the
carbureted ones that horrible carburetors but he brought it from
Cleveland to Houston and what happens is up there the salt starts to rot stuff
well once the rust starts when you come down to Houston it's so humid here if
you have a car like to see my 94 Celica has no rust on it that's because it
lives in taxes its whole life and it didn't start to rust but if you take a
car from Cleveland that started to rust and come down to Houston it's so humid
the ross continues to go even faster because the humidity is all water vapor
and the rust rose even faster and one time the guy opened his driver's door
and it actually fell off so he pushed it back on pull of duct tape on it climbed
in the other side that was the junkiest toyota I ever saw it was would running though
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