Anyone have a writeup? Ive never changed the pads on any car before (brakes have always been included with the service on my previous cars), but I figured if I can install a turbo kit, headers, front mount intercoolers brake pads shouldn't be all that bad..


I know how to take the calipers off, only concern was, I need to compress the pistons in the caliper, right? Anyone have a picture of the tool that gets use? Also do I need shims, or can I just drop the pads right in?

 

Never done the C5, but have done brakes on a ton of other vehicles. You can use something as simple as a large C-clamp to force the pistons down. I leave the old pad next to the piston(s) and then use the clamp. Twist is slow. If you've refilled the brake fluid resevoir, you need to get some of the fluid out, other wise theres a good chance it will over flow as you press the piston back in. The pad will hit the caliper when the piston is far enough, then it's just a matter of putting the new pads in place of the old one. Just watch to make sure you put all the parts back where they came from. Before taking a fast drive around the block, pump the brakes a few times to get the pistons out as far as they need to be. Take it easy for a while too, the pads must "seat" on the rotor. HTH. Pretty easy to do pads compared to a turbo kit.... The ones that have replaced the pads probably have some better tips.

 

That's right, only 1 screw. You get the clamp mentioned by Roc87. First turkey baster suction all the fluid out of the master cylinder, have fresh ready.
jack and safely support blahblahblah. Remove wheels(loosen lugnuts first, ya lugnut)
FRONT: Apply 6 inch c-clamp to caliper. Observe where you put the inside foot of clamp, not on a fitting. Front foot of clamp goes in space in caliper directly onto pad. Screw it down till it bottoms. Remove clamp.
With 15mm socket on screw at top of caliper, and a crescent or 17 mm open end on inside of top screw(you have to look at it, it has a rubber boot. Remove JUST THE ONE SCREW. Caliper will fall backward into your waiting hand. Remove old pads, don't loose the little spring H that falls out of the top inside of bracket. Observe pistons are completely bottomed in their bores, or you new thick pads may not fit. Usu they do.

REars: same procedure, but you remove two screws holding caliper.
In neither case do you remove bracket and all as most PBR brake virgins do.
If you can install headers turbo (Wow!, Really?) you can do brakes. The trick is that one screw!
Bleed brakes either by gravity or with assistant stroking for you, and replace with the best fluid you can afford(not pep boys, but Ford truck or Castrol, or that other German brand, I forget the name.
I fyou can't understand these directions, go to Z)^vette.com when that site is up again and do search. They got lots of how-to's there.
Peace out.

 

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