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From: Sacramento CA
I have had enough!
OK! I am tired of cleaning the brake dust off the front wheels of my wife's 04 Expedition XLT. Kragans has a set of Ceramic Pads for the Expi. Before I get my 63 yr old body out in the garage and miss the races this afternoon. How hard is it to change the pads. I changed them on her old 2000 Exploder with no problem but I do not have a manual for this vehicle yet. if any one has a set of instruction or a short explanation on how it is done I would sure appriciate it. I have not take the wheels off to look so I have not Idea.
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Tom
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Tom
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remove the wheel, take out the two bolts in the caliper (the thing holding the disc pads), swap out the pads and put it back together...you might want to drain a little brake fluid from the mastercylinder first (and replenish when done), you can also replace any brake hardware (anti-rattle clips...etc) and apply some anit-squeal compound to the pad backings and some high temp grease to the caliper bolts...also consider washing the discs with brake cleaner (just don't breath any fumes/brake dust...)
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I beleive you will also need a T-45 Torx driver to get the caliper bolts off. There are numerous threads on brakes in the forum. Search around and you will find a whole bunch of pointers.
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I did buy the Satisfied Pads at Kragen. Other than a couple of spring I was not expecting it took about an hour and a half to do both sids.( did it during yellow flags at the 2 races.) The old pads sure put a lot of dust. I have 15K on it the the old pads were about half used up. Took longer to clean every thing up that to install the pads and put every thing back together.
Thanks for all the help
Tom
Thanks for all the help
Tom
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tbr3345, did you have to use any special tools on the unexpected springs or clips ? My 04 has 30K miles and was thinking about putting ceramic pads on the front to minimize brake dust.
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The preferred method for compressing the caliper is to open the bleeder valve first and then compress. The fluid from compressing will go out the bleeder instead of back up the line torwards the master cylinder. After cylinder is compressed close the bleeder, no air will enter using this method. The reason you do not want fluid going backwards is the sediment always works its way down to the caliper, pushing it back through the system can clogged the anti lock valves and mechinisims. When done top off master cylinder to proper level. You also get a slight benefit of getting some fresh fluid in the system as compared to a total replacement.
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