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In this video, we're going to show you how to service the front brakes on this 2011 Chevy Silverado. It's the same procedure for this truck from 2007 to 2013 Chevy Silverado as well as the GMC Sierra. This is the 1500. We're going to show you on the right-hand or passenger side. The left-hand or driver side is the same, and we do always recommend that you service your brakes in pairs. You'll need new brake rotors and pads from 1AAuto.com, jack and jack stands, 18mm to 22mm sockets and ratchet, breaker bar or pipe for some extra leverage since a couple of those bolts are pretty tight, and a T30 Torx bit and driver. If you have some rust you may need a couple of M10 bolts to help you get the disc or the rotor off. You'll also need a wire brush, brake or white grease, and a large C-clamp.
Remove the center cap just by prying with a screwdriver. If you don't have the benefit of air tools, loosen the lug nuts with the vehicle on the ground, then raise and secure the vehicle and then remove the lug nuts the rest of the way. Remove the wheel and tire. They are 22mm lug nuts.
By hand or using a steering wheel, turn so you can access the back of the caliper. Now check for any abnormal wear. Make sure that the inside and outside pads are warn about the same amount. Also on the rotor, make sure there are no deep grooves or uneven wear. This can indicate other problems with your brake system.
There are two 19mm bolts that hold the caliper on: up there and there. We'll fast-forward as we use a 19mm socket and ratchet to remove those bolts. Once you have your bolts off, just put the caliper up an out of the way. Use a screwdriver and pry the brake pads out. You can see the outer one comes out pretty easily. We have a little trouble with the inner one. We actually switched to a larger screwdriver, and you can see after a little more force it comes out.
Now this brake pad sticking in there like that indicates there's a problem, and you want to do some cleanup and some lubrication to prevent this. Remove the little stainless steel slides from the caliper bracket. There are two 18mm bolts that hold the caliper bracket to the steering knuckle: there and there. You can see here, we give it a try with just the socket and ratchet, but then we use a pipe for some extra leverage and loosen up that bottom one. Then we'll loosen up the top one, remove the bolts, and remove that caliper bracket. There's a T30 Torx screw that holds the rotor to the hub, and we're just using a T30 Torx bit with the ratchet to remove that.
Then, on this truck, the rotor actually pulls off quite easily. If your rotor doesn't come off easily, make sure you douse the back side with penetrating oil as well as around the studs. Use two M10 bolts, and you can tighten them up through the threaded holes and press the rotor off. Here you see old brakes on the left and new brakes from 1A Auto on the right. They're exactly the same.
The inner pad does have a straight edge at the bottom. Put the new rotor in place and then we just use a lug nut to put it in place, kind of just holds things together while you assemble it. Use a wire brush and clean out the grooves where the brake pads go in the caliper brackets. The slide bolts should move in and out nice and easy. If they don't, you can pull them out, clean them, and grease them. Here we are reinstalling the stainless steel slides into the caliper bracket. Then we'll use a wire brush to clean those as well.
We'll continue to fast-forward as we put the caliper bracket in place and start the two bolts that hold it in place. Then tighten them up preliminarily. Use the Torx wrench to tighten those up to 100 foot-pounds. Use brake grease or white lithium grease, and then grease the ends of the pads where they'll sit in the caliper brackets. You can use mineral spirits, or brake cleaner, even gasoline, anything that evaporates quickly and clean up your brakes before putting the rest of them back together.
Put the rear pad in first. Put one side in first and then press the other side in. Make sure it's going fairly easily, and the same thing for the front pad. Now you need to reset the caliper piston. We've put the old inner brake pad back in there, and I'm just going to use a large C-clamp, and as we tighten it up you'll see the pistons go back into the caliper. Now put the caliper back in place. Sometimes those slide bolts will get stuck a little bit, so you have to push them in a little bit to get the caliper to slide down in correctly. Put the caliper in place and start the two bolts on that hold it. We're going to Torx these two bolts to 50 foot-pounds.
Fast-forward as we remove that lug nut and then put our wheel back on. Put the lug nuts back on by hand first, then tighten them up preliminarily, and with the vehicle back down on the ground, secure and tighten those lugs. Torque the lug nuts to about 110 foot-pounds using a crossing pattern. There's a groove on the wheel and there's another tongue in the cap that line it up. Put the cap back on.
Most importantly, pump your brakes up and do test stops from five and ten mph. Make sure everything is working correctly before you road test your vehicle.
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Okay, friends, one of the first things we need to talk about is safety, hands and eyes. Let's get started by removing our wheel. The next thing we wanna do is push back our caliper a little bit. You can do that by either gently pushing it back slowly or, of course, you can open your bleeder screw. There we are. The next thing we're gonna do is remove our two caliper slider bolts. Take your caliper off and set it aside so it's putting no pressure on your flex hose. Let's remove our pads. Remove your caliper bracket bolts. Leave that one in there a couple of threads. Remove your bracket. Next, let's remove our rotor to hub mounting bolt. Hold your rotor so it can't fall off and give it a couple of loving bonks from the backside to remove it.
Next, make your way over to a nice bench where you can start disassembling your caliper bracket. If you grab onto these, you can pull out your caliper sliders. I'll set them aside on the corresponding holes. We'll move along to removing these tins. Use a nice pry bar or a screwdriver. We'll set those aside as well for recycling. Now, let's put this over a nice bucket. We're gonna use some parts cleaner inside these slider holes. Nice bore brush. Make sure you clean out the holes completely. Empty it out, let it dry. While that's drying, let's go ahead and clean up this area here where the tins are gonna go. You wanna get this edge right here, along there, and right there as well. Okay. All four corners look great, let's move along to cleaning up our sliders now. Give them a nice wipe, make sure they're not damaged in any way. If you see any corrosion or build-up, you need to, of course, clean it. And, of course, make sure you get up in this edge right here, which is where the boot is gonna be. This looks great. Do the same to the other one as well. Awesome.
Now, you're gonna wanna use some nice caliper grease, something with a nice high-temperature rating on it and we're gonna lubricate our sliders right here. I like to put on plenty of grease. That looks great. And, of course, I'm gonna get all the way up into that lip up there where the boot is gonna ride. That's gonna help keep moisture out of there. Let's go ahead and put it in. Give it a nice twist as we go. Perfect. Do the same to the other side. Okay. So, now let's continue on with that caliper grease and we're gonna go right along these areas that we just cleaned up. Let's go ahead and put on our brand new caliper tins here. Slide them in, lock them in. Perfect. Back at the vehicle, the next thing that we need to do is clean up our bearing where the mating surface is where the rotor is gonna ride. Little bit of copper never-seize. Let's go ahead and clean down that brand new brake rotor surface. It's time to install our brand new rotor. Let's go ahead and line it up on here. Take our little mounting bolt, start that in and we'll snug it up. Your caliper is a dual-piston caliper. To push in these, you're gonna need to push them both at the same time. Let's go ahead and do this slow. There it is. Now, we just wanna make sure that our bolts are nice and clean. If you have any thread locker on them, go ahead and make sure you clean it off.
Now, it's time to install our cleaned and prepped caliper bracket. When you install these bolts, I like to use a little bit of red thread locker. Start them both in, snug them up, and we'll torque them to manufacturer's specifications. Torque these to 170 foot-pounds. Now, it's gonna be time to install our pads. You're gonna notice that there's two different ones and you're also gonna notice on the thicker one that it has a squealer or wear indicator. You want that wear indicator facing down when it's installed. Perfect. Let's use a little bit of that caliper grease and go right on these caliper pistons. Put the caliper over the pads. Install your caliper slider bolts with a little bit of thread locker. Bottom them out and torque them to manufacturer's specifications as well. Torque these to 74 foot-pounds. Let's get the wheel back up on here. We're gonna snug up all the lug nuts and then we'll torque them to 140 foot-pounds. Torqued. Okay. So, the process will be the same on the other side of the vehicle. Other than that, go ahead and pump up your brake pedal and check your brake fluid.
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Okay, friends, before we get started, let's talk safety, hands and eyes. With that said, go ahead and raise and support the vehicle and remove your lug nuts and then remove the wheel. So, now that the wheel is off, we have a nice clear view of our brakes. This is your caliper slider bolt here and one up there, remove the pair. As you can see, the slider itself is turning. You're probably gonna need to hold that with something such as pliers. There's one. Do the same to the other. There we are. Let's go and remove that caliper. It's a good idea to inspect it. Make sure you don't see any fluid. This looks good. Let's set it aside. Let's go ahead and remove the pads. Looking at the caliper bracket, you're gonna be able to see the two mounting bolts. Use your 18-millimeter, remove the pair. There's one bolt, let's go ahead and start it in just a couple of threads and remove the other. Remove your bracket and set it aside.
Next, we're gonna use some cutters and we're gonna take off these two little tabs right there. They basically just hold the rotor from falling off. Let's remove the rotor. For our next step, we're gonna need a nice collection bucket. We're gonna put it down underneath here and we're gonna clean down the emergency brake apparatus. Come down along here. Right down there is where your adjustment is. We're gonna need to work with that, so we wanna make sure it's nice and clean. The next thing I like to do is take a nice pry bar on the backside, and I'm gonna press up against this. As you press, you wanna look at the forward side and make sure that this can pivot freely. If it seems like it's seizing up or it doesn't wanna move at all, you need to take it apart and free that up. Right down here is your adjuster, you wanna make sure that that can move. I like to spray them down with some penetrant right along here, that's the adjustment area. Then right here is another area that it pivots. Let's go ahead and spray down this area with a little bit of penetrant. Clean down this area where the rotor is gonna ride.
So, I got in between all the studs and the hub area there. Now, we're just gonna put on a little bit of copper never-seize to help make sure that the rotor comes off fairly easily down the line. Perfect. Let's take a look at our brand new rotor. We're gonna, of course, clean it down before we go ahead and install it. A little bit of parts cleaner, nice clean rag. Get your braking surfaces, and right down along in here. That's where your emergency brake shoes are gonna ride. I like to clean that down as well. Now, this part we're gonna have to talk about for a second. When we put the rotor on, what we wanna try to do is activate the emergency brake, which you can do with the pry bar from the backside. And you wanna try to make sure that the emergency brake is gonna be able to hold the rotor from being able to spin. If it doesn't, you need to go ahead and pull off the rotor, come under here to where your adjuster is, and turn this so it expands the shoes out just a tiny bit, and retry. You wanna continue doing that back and forth until you find the perfect amount of pressure for your emergency brake shoes. Okay. So, pretty much right where it was at for me. Worked perfectly. Because I can put just a teeny bit of pressure and then that kind of keeps it. And if I put a little bit more, then it really holds it. So, that tells me that I don't need to remove this and readjust that. But if you do, it's very easy. Like I said, just pull it back off, adjust it a tiny bit, and then go ahead and put it back on and try again.
Something that I like to mention is once you have it so it's adjusted, you wanna make sure that you can turn it and you hear a tiny bit of drag and that's it. You definitely don't want anything that makes it feel like you have to put any force without having the emergency brake on. All right. So, we made our way over to the bench because I wanted to talk about cleaning up this caliper bracket here. We're gonna take it apart first. What I mean by that is to come in between here and remove the tins. We're gonna set those aside for recycling so we've got some nice new ones. After that, if you grab onto this area right here, this is considered your slider. Go ahead and pull that out. Same thing with the other one. Perfect. I'm gonna go ahead and wipe these down. Just like that. And we're gonna inspect them. You wanna make sure that you don't see any rust pits, large rust flakes, and you definitely don't wanna see anything up inside the groove, up along right here because that's where the boot is gonna ride. So, you wanna make sure it's as clean as possible.
Okay. Now, over a nice collection bucket, let's put a little bit of parts cleaner inside here and let it sit for a second. If you happen to have a bore brush, go ahead and give it a little whirl inside there. Let's empty this out. Oh, yeah. So, that's gonna get out all the debris or even leftover grease that might be left inside there. We'll let that to continue drying. Set this aside. Now, we need to clean up this area right here, which is the area tins are gonna ride. If you don't clean this up, there's a possibility the pads could be stuck inside the brackets and that's, of course, gonna cause an issue. All right. So, I've got all four corners here nice and cleaned up. As you can tell, those look great. Let's use a little bit of caliper grease along those areas. Now, it's gonna be time to install our tins. This is the backside. You can see it's got two little ears that face towards the center. And then the other side has the two ears that are gonna spread those pads apart. Go ahead and put the ears so they're inside the center of the bracket there. Lock it in. Same thing on the other one. Perfect. That looks good. They're definitely not falling off. I'm just gonna put a little bit of grease along the boot right there.
Now that we have that done, let's go ahead and grease these slider pins here. Crawl up and down the entire shaft there, make sure you put on plenty of grease. It doesn't cost you anything, so why not? There we are. Make sure you get up along the lip right there where the boot is gonna ride. It's gonna help keep moisture out of there. Keep this functioning good for a long time. Go ahead and start it into the hole. As you press in, you're gonna hear air come out. And give it a nice twist. That's good. That settles in the grease. Do the same to the other side. Okay. At this point, we have our caliper bracket cleaned and prepped. This looks amazing. Let's get back over the vehicle. Before we can go any further, let's go ahead and clean down the threads on our bolts. We wanna make sure there isn't any more thread locker on there, and then we're gonna replace it with some of our own. So, we cleaned up our bolts. I put on a little bit of red thread locker because that's how I roll. We're gonna go ahead and take the bracket here, start in both the bolts, and then we'll snug them up and torque them to manufacturer specifications.
All right. Let's torque these to 148 foot-pounds. Now, it's gonna be time to put our pads on. Something that I want you to pay attention to is this right here. This is called a wear indicator. You want that on the inner pad and you want it facing up. There we are. The outer pad should not have a wear indicator on it. Perfect. The pads move around inside the brackets. That tells me that I cleaned up the brackets well. Now, it's gonna be time to push in the caliper piston. A lot of times people like to open up the bleeder screw, you just wanna be careful not to break it and you also wanna be careful not to get any air in there. With that said, for the purpose of this video, I'm just gonna go ahead and push it back slowly without opening it. There we are. Now that we have the piston pushed in, let's go ahead and apply a little bit of caliper grease right along the piston right there. And then, of course, up on these ears right there. Basically, the contact point is where it connects with the pad. Let's go ahead and put on our caliper over those pads. Squeeze them in if you have to. There we are. Slide the bolts. Tiny bit of thread locker is a good idea.
All right. Snug them up. Torque them to manufacturer specifications. Here we go, 38 foot-pounds. Let's get the wheel up on here. Start all your lug nuts, snug them up, and torque them to 140 foot-pounds. Here we go. Torque them to 140. Torqued. And now, of course, the process would be the same for the other side of the vehicle. Okay. So, the next thing that you need to do is go ahead and pump up your brake pedal so it's nice and firm. Aside from that, check your brake fluid right over here and take it for a road test. Of course, it's a great idea to make sure you check your parking brake as well. Make sure that that holds the vehicle while it's idling and drive and maybe even a little bit of foot pressure on that gas pedal.
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