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all right today we're going to place the brake pads on a 98 Toyota Tacoma it's actually a super simple process these are what the brake pads look like I'm going to link these in the video description below so you have a quick and easy place to buy them from Amazon has them for pretty cheap so go ahead and check that out and then what I've done up to this point is I have loosened up all of the lug nuts on the tire before I lifted it off the ground then I went ahead and put the jack on the knuckle underneath the tire and that lifted the tire up and off off the ground and then I put a secondary jack right there just in case you know anything happens when the tire is off the vehicle that's just more of like a precautionary thing now that the tire is lifted up and I have the lug nuts loose I'm going to go ahead and loosen up the rest of lug nuts and then pop the tire off and then I'll show you the caliper where the brake pads are located this is called the caliper right here this is what holds the brake pads you can kind of see down inside of them right here how worn down they are this guy's called the rotor and with the rotor you can kind of see this is where the brake pads press against it to stop your car and right now there's kind of a little lip up at the top and that just kind of goes to show like what's being worn away when the brake flat brake pads clamp down on the rotor itself so for me it's about time to replace my rotors as well on the caliper itself if you look around on the back side you're going to see two 17 millimeter bolts this one and then the one a little bit farther down and those need to come out in order for the caliper to slide away from the vehicle so I've pulled the caliper up and off the rotor itself and I've also supported it with a little bungee cable so that it doesn't put any pressure on this brake line right here because if those brake you're in it for a much more expensive repair so here's how to release the brake pads there's this little wire thing right here you just press down and then pull out and then you'll be able to pull the wire out of each of these little pins and then these pins come out like this and that releases the brake pad so they can slide out through the other side also this little metal thing can just be pushed down and then lift it up and out it also helps if you take like a nail or something or a screw and stick it through that little hole and then you can hit the end of this and that will also push the little pins out I found if that helped out a lot as well anyway so now these two brake pads will fall through the other side so one thing we have to do right now as you can see with the old brake pads they're a lot closer together because they've been worn down so much new brake pads take up a lot more room so we have to do here on the caliper itself we have to push back these Pistons a little bit to make room for the extra thickness of the new brake pads so that it'll still fit over the rotor when we go to put it back on so inside the engine bay there's this brake fluid box right here so I'm going to go ahead and unscrew the cap of this and pop it off so that brake fluid will be able to rise up as I compress that piston down I'm just going to leave it on the top so no debris or dust falls inside of there so since we don't need the old brake pads anyway I went ahead and toss one of the old ones back in there and then use a giant C clamp to clamp down on the brake pad itself which in turn is compressing these little pistons right here to make room so with each turn of this I compress that piston down just a little bit more then with the new brake pads remember that the holes on the top go inside the caliper so that those little metal rods can slide through them again go ahead and clip that up pocket in place now everything's in place the two pins metal plate the little latch thing I did have to rotate these just a little bit to get the holes to line up for this little bracket anyway if you are going to replace your rotors usually you replace your rotors you know if this ledge is too big or if it's kind of jerking when you're slowing down to be pressing the brakes in your car kind of chugs good chances are that it's the front rotors are warped a little bit all that these are is there is loose and you can just pop them off of the vehicle like that and then that's your rotor itself and then that's the part of your truck so these are actually relatively inexpensive I'm going to leave mine on for now if you need to replace these I will link then also in the video description below I've painted these calipers probably about two years ago so if you want to see a video on how I did that go ahead and click right here and that'll give you a little walkthrough on the type of paint that I used and a little process behind that anyway I'm gonna do right now is just pop on the tire and cap the brake fluid again after I finish the other tire when you replace one set of brake pads you're going to want to do both the left and right side of the vehicle if you have any questions go ahead and link them in the comments below don't forget that I've linked the parts that you need in the video description below and also before you actually drive anywhere you're going to want to make sure to pump the brake pedal a few times and that'll make sure to clamp the brake pads closer to the rotors so that you won't have any delay when you're braking for the first time so make sure that you press on the brake pedal enough times until it feels like normal again it will feel really loose for a little bit it probably only took me about 20-25 minutes to do one side of the vehicle so I would say you know about an hour process to do both sides if you have any questions make sure to leave them in the comments below don't forget to like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe thanks for watching you