I could have swore Wild_Bill had a write up on replacing brake pads. I can't seem to find it though. Anyone know where I can find it?

 

This is what you are looking for my friend.

 

Replacing pads on 4Runners is cake, just remove pin the caliper does not even come off

 

just dont remove the 4 bolts that actually open the caliper! i did, and this happened

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/show...&threadid=6496

all you gotta do is take out the 2 pins that hold the brake pads in, use a C clamp on each side to press both calipers in, take out old pads, put new pads in, and put the pins back in along with springs and retaining bar thingy

pretty easy once you've done it a first time, of course ,everything is

 

what kind of pads did you purchase? i was looking at the toyota pads, but i called autozone and they had some pads for fairly cheap...

 

pep boys had some raybestos for 19 bucks, so that's what i got

 

thanks for the help!

 

I just changed mine also. Holy Cow! It was so freaking easy. I went with the cheap Autozone ones. They have a lifetime warranty so hey for $15, why not? so far I have no prob with them

 

They're gonna warp your rotors because it's such a hard material so it can live up to a lifetime warranty.

my brother bought some for his old MR2 and his rotors were warped so badly that they actually had a nice ripling effect you could see from 10 feet away

 

yeah i changed mine yesterday also. i was very amazed at how easy it was.

 

Ok, now how hard is it to replace the rotors on a 4WD?

 

All I did to replace mine was to take off the caliper, then i just hit the rotor with a rubber mallet to get it loose and it came right off.

 

Damn , I'll have to keep an eye on 'em