Honda Civic Brake Pads Installation Instructions

1. Jack up the front proper aspect of the car, or use a hydraulic lift when you’ve got entry to one. You need not elevate it particularly excessive, simply high sufficient to slip the tire off.
2. Remove the lug nuts with a lug wrench and carefully carry the wheel away from the car. Set the lug nuts somewhere safe the place you can retrieve them when that you must change the tire.
3. Discover the caliper assembly on the front side of the rotor (the metallic disk behind the wheel). Remove the highest bolt with a wrench, then loosen the bottom bolt.
4. Rotate the caliper on the underside bolt until you can see the piston.
5. Look for a valve towards the top of the caliper covered by a rubber cap. Take the cap off and loosen the valve ever so slightly with a wrench. This releases brake fluid pressure on the piston.
6. Whereas continuing to hold the valve firmly with the wrench, depress the piston using a C-clamp in your free hand. Then, nonetheless holding the piston down, retighten the valve. You need to be capable of take away the C-clamp safely.
7. Slip the outdated brake pads out of the caliper and replace them with new ones. The pads are often barely completely different sizes, and one in every of them most likely has a thin length of metallic used to make the scraping sound that alerts you to the need to exchange your brake pads. Ensure you match the orientation of the new pads to the orientation of the old.
8. Turn the caliper assembly again into position and tighten the bolts so that it stays in place. Ensure you put the cap on over the pressure valve as well.
9. Substitute the tire, tighten the lug nuts, and lower the Honda to the ground.
10. Repeat the entire process with the brake assembly on the left-hand side.