up today how to change the brake pads on the 98 [Music] Honda are you having problems stopping your car does your car go every time you put your foot on that brake pedal then my friend you need new brakes but instead of coming on down to get your brakes fixed cheap you could do it yourself at home with some very simple tools a break job is pretty simple everybody hey this tool Tony i' like to welcome you to this episode of how to fix 101 on today's episode we're going to replace some definitely worn out old brake pads on this 98 Honda Accord this is a uh LX model with the four cylinders but I think the brakes on most of them are about the same so check this out live and learn guys now the tools we need today are really simple you can use your the jack that came with the car or one of these floor stand Jacks can of some uh a spray brake cleaner a C clamp some multi-purpose grease you can get this in a small Small Tube you don't have to have that a 17 mm socket wrench a tire iron to get your tire off and then the brakes some new brake pads and some brake grease goes on the back of the pads use your tire iron to remove the wheel now turn the steering wheel to whichever direction the brake is on so if the Brake's on the left side turn the steering wheel to the left if it's on the right side turn the steering wheel to the right okay quick anatomy of the brakes here this is the uh rotor this is what turns when your wheel turns the brake pads rub against this and cause the car to stop this is the holder for the brake shoes itself it's called a caliper we're going to remove the bottom bolt down here flip this caliper up and replace the pads first thing we need to do is remove this bolt down here on the bottom of the caliper to do that I'm going to use a 17 mm socket wrench and then pull it out all the way we're going to need to grease this later all right next we flip the caliper open just grab it by the bottom pull it up that exposed the brake pads here they are this is one of the two new brake pads when your brake start squealing it's because this wear indicator this little metal clip here on the side it's cuz your brake pads have worn all the way down to that now if you let your brake job go after this thing's been squealing a while you'll probably need to replace your rotors too but if you catch it just when this thing starts squealing you still have enough brake pads on here to work and uh not kill anything okay all we need to do to remove them is to just pull back on them on the top take a look see this is uh this is down there ways not completely to the backing metal but these are pretty shot now here's the here's the one with the uh remember I was showing you that wear guide it's right here it is right to the bottom of the pad see these brakes are hated they're shot check your rotor for wear if it's smooth if it doesn't have any grooves you should be okay if it has grooves you probably either want to get it turned at a uh shop or have it replaced or replace it yourself rather okay now I'm going to spray this down with some brake cleaner get yourself some good brake pads these are a Wagner they've been making brake pads like since cars have been cars and uh these are ceramic and they're thermal quiet so these should be pretty good now before we install them we need to apply some brake grease that you can also get at O'Reilly's or whatever place you're going so we want to put the grease on the back of these pads in this area that is kind of sticks up here squeeze some out of this little dabad doya and then just smear it around with your finger you want make sure it's all nicely [Applause] coated do the same thing with the other brake pad and we're ready to put them in now to put them back in it's fairly simple the part with the grease on it goes to the outside you just set this little foot right here this little dog in the bottom of this you can see there's a place for it right there just push it down in there and then push the top in don't get your fingers in that grease though now the one with the wear indicator remember that that I showed you a couple of times here that goes to the back again the pads go to the inside set it in that little space oh there we go push it in now you want to make sure that youve got him as close up to the rotor as you can so give him a little squeeze now up above the pads that we flipped up is the caliper remember okay this is a the Piston that pushes the brake pads against the rotor we need to depress that now to do this I just use a C clamp and one of the old pads so I just put the C clamp and then I'll use this basically to give it something to push against then just twist it until it goes all the way in okay once it's all the way in make sure that that gasket around here is okay okay once you have that pushed in go ahead and flip it down over the brakes it should just go right there and it's good okay now it's time to put this bolt back in place to do that I'm going to put a little grease on it first just some multi-purpose grease oh that looks gross doesn't it smear that on there down here there's a little the bottom of this thing there's a little rubber gasket you want to make sure that that gasket fits around this hole nicely or you'll have a hard time putting his bolt back in okay and just put the bolt in and then tighten it up that's it go ahead and turn that steering wheel back so that you can uh put the wheel back on that looks good before you go driving cross country be sure you do a little breaking in of those uh brake pads before you go get going too far basically you just uh go about 5 miles an hour put on the brakes go 10 mil an hour put on the brakes go 15 miles an hour put on the brakes just keep doing that for a while until you get up to about 60 M hour and then uh do that like two or three times and they'll be definitely solid and uh etched in into those brake rotors so hey all right well this is tool do Tony I hope you enjoyed this episode of how to fix you at 101 um you know changing these brake pads was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be and I would definitely consider it along the 101 stuff it's not that much harder than changing the oil I appreciate you watching this video and uh as I'm always saying if you're not fixing it yourself you're paying somebody else to fix it know get out there and go fix something tool dude out of [Music] here [Music] you put your left wrench in you put your left wrench out put your left wrench in and then you shake it all about you do the too Tony and you turn yourself around cuz that's what I'm talking about have a great day everybody go fix something