Welcome back, in this video I demonstrate how I replace drum brake wheel cylinders, brake shoes and front pads, on a 1999 Gmc suburban, in addition I use one…
Welcome back, in this video I demonstrate how I replace drum brake wheel cylinders, brake shoes and front pads, on a 1999 Gmc suburban, in addition I use one…
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There is an inexpensive tool to compress the caliper piston back in which you just turn the handle and it pushes on the old pad. Also, you should never (old or new car) push that old contaminated fluid back up backwards through the ABS system and the master cylinder seals. The old fluid should exit through the bleeder screw into a pan, which also makes pushing the piston back in easier and preventing premature failure of the ABS system and master cylinder.
hey rob,awesome job.your a awesome person and a great mechanic
Nice job will, I enjoy your videos. I use anti-seize all the time religiously on bearings, bolts, studs, etc. I have found over the years that anti-seize on auto adjusters and caliper pins tends to harden and cause gumming. The adjuster tends to get mucked up with brake dust. I have started using silicone paste and it seems to work out great. Keep up the good work.
good job on those brakes you make it look so easy ,I have a 98 durango and the brakes stick sometimes on the left rear, after i depress the brakes still feels like there holding a little …then i get that burned brake smell …no leak on cylinder
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This is a very good job you’ve done with filming in illustrating how to do this. I am doing one now that’s been in progress for one month. It’s the type of wheel cylinder that has a rounded claim. I cannot get the to hoax on each side of the round clamp two-seat.
I may in fact have to take his car to the mechanic to see if they can do it. It looks so simple but I just don’t know how to get it to seat is there any information you could give me?
Hey Will, I have a 1997 ford F-150 with a 4.2 V6 5 speed manual. It has a manual transfer case and will go into neutral and into 4 lo only. My votech teacher told me something about a vacuum switch and was wondering if you had an idea of whats wrong.
i put this on my phone and follow it while overhauling my brakes. It worked perfectly…Many thanks for the detail.
Very nice video. Detailed and you can actually see what yr doing. Keep up the good work!!!!
hey where you located if you don’t mind me asking? I live near Pittsburgh. Just curious. thanks. Great Vids!
Thank you for the feedback, anytime, 🙂 hows that saying go “don’t hate the player hate the game” lol its all good
Thank you sir, i appreciate the feedback, will do
Will do, i started putting one together, need to redo due to poor lighting, if all goes well i will shoot for this weekend
hey Rob Can u do a Tour of ur Tool box and tools?
this is a very good video, thanks for uploading it, the “mechanics” out there are going to be mad now.
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Thank you man i appreciate that, im not much of a tv person either, awesome that’s the feeling im after, bring you along real time real world, thank you for the feedback
Sorry this one i didn’t catch, time was tight however i do service these 4L60 and 4L80’s often, i been contemplation doing a complete rebuild series on a 4L60e for you guys i have one coming in, in the near future, if time allows check in for that one, its a common trans that i feel would benefit many
So would you be able to do a video on the transmission service of this vehicle?
As always Will, I love your work and your videos are my primetime shows!! (I don’t watch much t.v.) I feel like I’m sitting in the garage with you. Good stuff, Brother. Keep up the good work.
Not at this time sorry, will put up when one comes in thanks
Thank you i appreciate the compliment, great tip
Thank you, believe it or not by the book they want you to remove the steering gear box, not to bad of a job however snap on makes a low profile puller that works well for Gm ( snap on YA6880 ) may be other brands out there hope that helps
Thank you, im getting over it lol will do thanks for the suggestions that will be a good topic to cover as well
Thanks for watching
Thank you sir.
but reading the warranty guidelines that in fact is wrong, they(autozone employees) are not to do that for its knowing that you are going to damage them on a bad rotor, clearly states this in their warrantee guideline. I worked for Auto zone for 8 years and never honored a warranty in this manner. Relating just to brake pads/shoes for example, a warranty only covers if the part failed before due time of life, to get a pair free just from normal wear, where are they making money?
Good job Will
I’ve never had an issue with Autozone either. In fact I even heard an AZ employee recommend to a customer with bad rotors (who could not afford rotors & pads) to just replace the rotors when she had the money and then warranty the pads at the same time. Go figure…
Thank you sir. very good tip thank you for sharing, i appreciate the feed back
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Hey Will great job on them brakes. I find on most drum set ups that the adjusters only work with reverse braking and most people never drive and stop hard enough in reverse to actually make them adjust properly. After time the rear brakes end up not doing much if anything at all. For final setting of the brakes I do some repeated reverse stops and you feel pedal pressure and braking improve. I also do this on occasion to keep them adjusted properly. Keep up the great vids
Sorry to hear about the Taurus videos Will, I would have liked to see them. Indeed though, don’t let it get ya down. Great job with this video! If you make one about the self adjusting mechanism I’d like to see it. Everything clicked for me a while back once I learned that most work via the parking brake when in reverse but not all are this way so you first need to understand how yours work. Also it might be worth mentioning why the front shoe is shorter. You can explain it better than I could!
The problem with that is The throw is very little on the automatic adjusters… adjust by hand then let the automatic adjusters take over and maintain it, that way you have no worries of one side or the other being out causing a come back, set it and forget it, move on to the next job, i find it faster time is money
Before putting on brake drum, why do you have to screw so much the automatic adjuster so that brake drum fits snug on shoes?? You have the AUTOMATIC adjuster that will do its job after a few E. brake actions.
Thank you sir. very good questions, i would like to make a video response for you guys covering the self adjusters, hands on i feel it would be easier to understand and more helpful that way, thank you for the interest, will do my best
Great video specially the time you took for rear brakes. Since they don’t wear fast. As weekend mech I don’t get to work on them often. Found that today snapping a photo or two with Dig camera is way to go. “Gravity bleed”.., never heard of that, good tip. Self adjusting brakes. Never quite understood them. You helped some but tell me do they adjust for normal braking or emergency braking? AND most important How do they not over-adjust. How do they stop adjusting themselves?
Well done, after rechecking my 2002 2500hd frt suspension your way in an unloaded position I did notice my pitman arm needs replacing. The nut is directly over a cross member and cant get the pitman arm puller in there , no space at all. I can use a large wrench to take the nut off. Is there a way of doing this without removing the box completely ?
Thank you, good catch its on the list, i will try and put something together for you, i have a pretty good understanding see what i can come up with, thanks again
Thank you sir. comes with time
Free replacement no charge done deal, just labor never had an issue
Great attention to detail. A little anti-seize applied to the threads of the bleeder screw could save alot of grief later. Thanks for posting.
A question I have when I hear you say something relating to the front pads as being a lifetime warranty, I worked for AutoZone for a fewyears and the lifetime deal was in case they failed as in falling apart or some other bad issue, the warranty did not cover a free set of pads just from normal use which is what happens to them.