Your 2005 Ford Explorer has ample passenger period and haul extent. As a arrangement you can transport family and friends and their Accoutrement enclosing town. You effect on the contrary call for to be able to break when the age comes, so you'll desideratum to interchange the front CD brakes on your Ford Explorer when basic.
Instructions
1. Disconnect the anti battery cable. Using a syringe, turkey baster or alike belongings, filter two thirds of the brake fluid from the skillful cylinder. Hoist the vehicle and secure it on jackstands. Remove the shove.
2. Tighten the clamp to backside the caliper pistons in their bores. Reinstall the wheels. Test drive the vehicle at slow to moderate speeds to ensure that the maintenance was performed correctly. Lift the caliper from the anchor plate. Retain as much of the original caliper-slide pin grease as possible.
3. Suspend the caliper from the frame using mechanic's wire. Avoid allowing the caliper to dangle or hang from the brake line or the brake line will be damaged. Remove the brake pads and anti-rattle clips from the anchor.
4. Remove the shims from the brake pads. They can be reused when you put the new pads on. Reinstall the anti-rattle clips. Install the new brake pads, attaching them to the anchor plate.
5. Install the caliper. Add brake fluid to the master cylinder. Bleed the brakes. Reinstall the wheel and secure the lug nuts. Once the vehicle has been lowered to the ground use a torque wrench to tighten the lug nuts to 100-ft. lbs.
6. Reconnect the negative battery cable to the battery. Start the engine and pump the brakes 3 to 4 times to seat the brake pads. Practice an 8-inch C-clamp placed on the caliper to close this. Remove the clamp. Remove the 2 calipe-slide pin bolts.
