I am wondering if anyone on here has had any experience with changing the brake pads on a '01 Sequoia. A friend of mine needs them done, and I am going to do them for her this weekend, but want to see if there is anything special that I would need to know about before doing them. I have done them on my Mazda 6, my old Teg, and a friends Mustang, just never on a truck or SUV, so just seeing if there is anything I should know about. I believe its 4wd also, but not sure. Any help is greatly appreciated and will be repped. Thanks.

 

Dont unbolt the caliper from the spindle. Just remove the antirattle springs, then the 2 retainer pins from the top of the caliper, and the pads will slide right out the top.

This is assuming of course the rotors are good. If not, just remove the two 17mm bolts holding the caliper assy to the spindle, and the rotors will pop right off.

 

pmed ya

 

I did the pads on my 2004 Tundra not long ago and it was easy, probably the easiest pad job on anything in my life. Take off 2 clips, pull the pad retaining clips out and the pads lift out. Be sure to get new antirattle pads as the old ones will be shot and definitely cannot be reused, just push the pistons back in the calipers, this is easy and was something that I was concerned with but they went in super smoothly, put the new pads/anti rattle pads in and done.