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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the emergency brake shoes as well as the emergency brake hardware on this 2003 Mercury Mountaineer. We show you on the passenger side, but the driver side is a similar procedure. The items you'll need for this is a 10mm and 19mm socket and ratchet, a flat blade screwdriver, a pair of pliers, locking pliers, wire, wire cutters, jack and jack stands and a torque wrench.
Start off by prying off your hub cap, then remove these 19mm lug nuts. If you don't have air powered tools, you want to loosen them up while the vehicle is on the ground, raise the vehicle and then remove them the rest of the way. Now just pull the wheel free.
Then remove these two 10mm bolts back here on the back of your caliper. You can see we're using a wrench and then another wrench for some extra leverage. However, you can also use a socket and ratchet. We'll just fast-forward as Mike removes those two bolts. Once you remove both those bolts just pull your caliper off and set it up here on your upper control arm. Then pull the rotor off.
Using a pair of locking pliers and needle-nosed locking pliers are best for this procedure. You just want to grab that spring, pull it out of that shoe, and then disconnect it from the other brake shoe. Just pull it down and out. Now do the same thing to this spring. Then, for this clip, just pry the clip down and off of that pin. Then pull it free. Then do the same thing on this one down here. Now you can just pull your brake shoe off and out of the adjuster, pull your adjuster off, and then the other brake shoe.
If you plan on using your old adjuster, just spray it with some rust penetrant. You just want to loosen it up and make sure that you can turn it by hand. We're going to replace our hardware, so you just knock out that old pin, push the new pin in. We'll do the same thing with this one, but to get the new pin in, you have to be a little creative. So we're going to take some wire, just feed it through that hole, and pull it down. Using a pair of wire strippers, you just want to strip the wire, take your pin, just wrap the wire around the pin. Then pull the wire and it will pull the pin up and through that hole. Just disconnect the wire, we'll take our brake shoe, and put it over that pin.
Then take a clip and just hold the pin from the other side so it doesn't push out. Then push the clip into place. To turn the pin, you want to just push in with some pliers and turn it. You do want to make sure that your clip's in the right position when you do this. We'll just do that again real quick. Then repeat the process on this brake shoe.
Now we'll take our new adjuster and just bring it in, slide into the new tube. Now line up the slots on the adjuster with the slots on the brake shoes. Just push the shoes together and that will hold the adjuster into place.
Now take your spring, push into the hole on this shoe, and then, using pliers, pull the spring into place on the other shoe. Then make sure that these are aligned, take your spring, and reclip it up here into this brake shoe. Make sure this brake shoe's in place, take your locking pliers, and pull the spring and push it in that brake shoe. Just use a flat blade screwdriver to push the spring in the rest of the way if it doesn't go in. Then take mineral spirits and wipe down your brake shoes to clean off any oil or residue that you got on them while you were installing them. Then we're just going to use a flat blade screwdriver and scrap up this backing plate, just remove all the leftover metal on it so it doesn't scrap on our rotor.
Now push your rotor back into place, and you just want a little bit of resistance from your brake shoes. If you don't have a little bit of resistance or you have too much, you just want to turn the adjuster. You can help out by using a flat blade screwdriver. If you have to do it a lot then it's a lot easier if you actually just remove this spring. So just take your pliers and unclip the spring.
Now you can just turn this easily by hand and adjust it to whatever you need. Before putting the spring back on, it's a good idea to just test and if you have the right amount of resistance, just pull the rotor back off and reclip your spring. Then just slide your rotor back into place. Now, using a wire brush, clean up the brake pad slides on your caliper bracket. Then take your caliper and push it back into place. You just want to line up those tabs on the brake pads onto the slides on the bracket. You may need to give it a little force to get it on there all the way. Then we'll fast-forward as Mike replaces and tightens up those two 10mm bolts.
Now replace the wheel and then replace the lug nuts. We'll fast-forward as Mike tightens those up. You want to tighten them while the vehicle is in the air just preliminarily, and then lower the vehicle and tighten them the rest of the way. Then you want to torque each of these to 100 foot-pounds in a crossing pattern. Take your hub cap, line it up, and hit it back into place.
After doing any work on your brakes, you just want to pump the brake pedal until it firms up, and then do a stopping test from 5 miles per hour and then 10 miles per hour.
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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the rear parking brake shoes and hardware. This is a 2006 Ford Explorer. If you like this videos, and I hope you do, please click subscribe. Also check out all our other videos for Explorer as well as other vehicles, and if you need the parts for this car, click the link in the description and go to 1AAuto.com.Here are the items you'll need for this repair.
With the vehicle on the ground, and a 19 millimeter socket or your tire iron and loosen up your lug nuts. Raise and support the vehicle. You can use a jack and jack stands. We are using a lift. Remove the lug nuts the rest of the way, and remove the wheel and tire.
Use a large screwdriver, insert it here, and pry out to push the piston back into caliper. This'll help you get it apart easier. There's two 10 millimeter bolts to remove: one down here and one up here. Use a wrench or socket and ratchet to remove those. Once those bolts are out, use your wrench or your screwdriver and pry the caliper out. Set these bolts aside and then the outer pad, you have to push it out and then pry up. I'm pushing this way and then prying up and the pad comes out and the inner pad just pulls right out. You can either secure your caliper with a bungee or just make sure that you don't stress the brake hose.
Remove the disc. It should just pull off. There’s a lot of corrosion, so we're expecting a little bit of a fight. I'll put a lug nut on just to make sure it doesn't fly too far. If you're going to reuse your disc, you don't want to hit it with a hammer. We're going to be replacing this one, so we're not that worried about it.
First you need to remove this top spring. Use a good set of needle nose locking pliers. Lock on to this spring. Pull it forward, and out of the notch in the brake shoe. For the spring and adjuster on the bottom side, just use a flat blade screwdriver to pry out, and then you can pull your adjuster out, and then you can push the shoe in, and then the spring comes out.
You need to get the retaining pins and clips out. Pull the shoe back, put some pressure on the top, push it down, and push the clip in with your screwdriver and down. Sometimes they come off really easy. For the front one, do the same thing. Pull it out so you can see it and push on it. Sometimes it helps if you hold from the back, then you can just pull the shoes right off. This spring has to feed through. Just getting caught up on here a little bit. The shoes and spring come off. Going to take the pins out. You can feed them up and out on this side. Just push them back through, and they just drop out.
On this side, we have the original hardware from the vehicle, and the new hardware kit from 1A Auto. You can see there's two of everything because it’s for both sides, and we've only taken apart the one side so far. We do recommend you do it in pairs. Everything is going to function the way it did originally. There are some slight differences. These clips are a little different. They go together differently, but everything's going to install and function just the way the original did.
You want to clean and lubricate the touch points for the brake shoes. There's three on each side, one, two, and three, and then one, two, and three. Wire brush them, and use a little bit of the silicone lubricant that comes with the kit and lubricate those touch points.
To reinstall, take one of your pins and just feed it to the hole in the back, pull it through, and hold it, and your shoe. We sell new shoes at 1A Auto. We are reinstalling our old one because it's still in good shape, but you can get new ones at 1AAuto.com. Put the shoe over the stud and on. Take a clip and put it on. Use needle nose pliers. Squeeze the clip with your thumb, grab the pin with the pliers, and twist.
We're going to repeat the same thing for this side. This is a little harder to get to, because there's a whole bracket back here, but we're using a magnet. You could also feed a piece of wire through there to pull it through, and then just grab onto it on this side. To hold the pin in place, I'm going to use a quarter inch socket, kind of any size. This is a three eighths and an extension, and just push it in from the back to hold the pin. Put my shoe on and the clip. I can actually just turn the clip like that, lock it in place, and then twist the clip back the other way.
Take a little bit of silicone, just put it on the threads and work this back, and then back this way so it's as small as it can be. Put your smallest spring up in place, get your shoes into place somewhat, and your adjuster. On the passenger side, this wheel goes towards the front. Push it into place there, pull the shoes apart, and push into place there, and again, make sure everything's together. All right, upper spring, pull one of the top shoes out some. Okay, feed the spring into place and we'll hook the back first, and we'll get the shoe into place, then we'll grab on as far out as we can, and we're just going to try and set that hook the first time. We won't try and get it all the way in. Then, follow that with a screwdriver and push it in.
We're going to just preliminarily install our rotor, and then we want to adjust our brake shoes so that there's basically some tension between the brake shoes and the rotor. Right now, it's very loose. So the best way to adjust is just use something, push up on the spring a little bit, and then you can just adjust out. Make sure as you turn it that you're expanding the gap between here and the adjuster shoe. You can feel a little bit of tension between the shoe and the disc, then I'll just do it a little bit more.
Okay, good tension, not too much movement, and now it's a little difficult to pull off, so I know I have the tension right. Brake parts cleaner clean off the surface of the shoes. Then the same thing, brake parts cleaner, clean out the surface of the rotor and install the rotor. Clean the rotor surface and the backside.
Use a wire brush and clean your slides here. If your car does have a lot of rust, you may want to pull these off and chip away at the cast iron underneath. A lot of times, what happens on these vehicles is that they rust. These expand and may cause binding in the brake shoes. If they don't look clean or if they look bowed out at all, you'll want to take them apart and make sure there's no rust built up underneath.
Use some silicone brake grease and grease these slides on the top and bottom. You want to reset the piston into your caliper so put your old shoe back in. This gives you a better point to press on. Big c-clamp and push it all the way back in. And you want to make sure that your bolt slides are in good shape and free and as long as they are you can put them back together. If not, you can pull them right out, clean them up, and use some silicone brake grease and reassemble them. We put some grease on the back of our pads, put the inner one in first and now push it into place. And then the outer one slides down and on. I need to pull those out just a little bit.
Make sure your bolt slides are all the way out, they'll get hung up otherwise. Put the top into place and put it down on and put your bolts back in. Tighten the caliper bolts to 24 foot-pounds. Reinstall your wheel and tire. Put the vehicle back on the ground, you want to tighten your lug nuts to 100 foot-pounds using a star pattern. Any time you work on your brakes, before you go out and test drive just pump them a few times, make sure you have a nice firm pedal before testing.
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