hey everybody
eric here nomadic fanatic uploading this
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uh as i start this video i don't know if
this is ever going to make it on youtube
and oftentimes when i do mechanical work
on my own vehicles
they don't make the cut for whatever
reason however
i'm going to play along like this is
going to get uploaded although it may
even be late
in fact i'm almost sure this is gonna be
late so i have a new tattoo on this arm
already and this is being shown after i
got my tattoo but
i have a day here uh if you've been with
me for a while you know the horror story
of two years ago
with yoda and her brake job her non-stop
failing brake job from les schwab tire
it was a nightmare from washington state
to montana every two days
warped drums in the back and luckily one
of the good things about miranda is
she is all disc brakes front to rear
that makes
brake jobs a lot easier and gives me a
little more self-confidence disc brakes
back here as well no more drums
and it's gotten to the point now where
it's like i got some time
even if the pads are okay and still 50
which i
from what i can see they're like 50 i
want to do the pads at least
also inspect the brakes see if the
rotors are okay make sure the calipers
are all working correctly check all the
lines while we got the tires off
this is just preventative maintenance on
miranda there's nothing wrong with
miranda she has a little bit of a squeal
sometimes under heavy braking but
it's time to try and attempt to do the
brakes and if i have any problems i have
some friends nearby so hopefully we can
get her done today
we're gonna start with the fronts went
to o'reilly's and
look at these monster beat that's
there's only two pads in there
there's two in there there's two more in
there plus some hardware
the back and the fronts are exactly the
same got some brake cleaner
some dot three brake fluid but i don't
know if we're gonna need this just yet
because if we don't need to bleed the
brakes and release any brake fluid if we
if we're just
doing the pads themselves and maybe we
can get away with not needing any more
brake fluid i got it anyway
also check with o'reilly's here in lacey
they have
the rotors front and back in stock and
the calipers just in case no matter what
we run into but
so in case you have these exact
simulators you're going to want to take
off two of these they'll have them at
three o'clock and six o'clock
you pull these off those are the only
two that are actually holding it on once
those are off these are all fake
and then the then the wheel simulator
will come off
and then that'll come off and then we
have access to the real ten lugs here
andrew's got a bunch of tools over here
so he's gonna he's gonna give me a hand
here
as we inspect the brakes and take this
we're gonna loosen all these first and
then i'll jack the rv
up all right got all the lugs broke
there while the tires are still on the
ground on that side
and they're all loosened over here on
the other side
before we go any further i know i'm
doing everything wrong like i always i
love doing everything wrong
don't do what i do guys don't you dare
do it how i do it
however watch it's gonna work magically
even though it's all wrong all right so
first time we got the tire off since i
bought the rv i mean i guess they do
kind of inspect it
with texas inspections but they don't
take the tire off and look they just
look
so let's look underneath and take a look
so first thing
rotors they look fine well i mean we
want to see more we must take the
caliper off here but
there's no cracks like i've seen other
times pulling this off and seeing a
surprise
and if we look at the pads themselves
i don't see there's a lot of there's a
lot of pad on the inside but not so much
on the outside i don't know if you'd
call that
uneven wear or whatnot or if that's
possibly the the noise that i'm hearing
that is the squeaking
but honestly look at the top see here on
the top they're not
terribly bad i mean there's a lot of pad
there but not a whole lot of pad at the
top there
so at least uh we're doing this before i
need to get it done and i have a problem
just gonna do the pads for now well
actually let me show you something
because
if we look at the new pads they're thick
in the middle and then you have this
part up here
which is kind of tapered well i'm
looking at the tapered part on there and
getting worried but really what that is
is that taper
means you're at 50 so once these pads
are there and there's no more taper
then you're under 50 percent so
technically the pads that we're looking
at on there
they're still probably 65 70
of actual but i mean i just want to do
it today anyway we're going to start
with 100
front to back that way i can inspect all
of the rotors and all of the calipers
and all the brake lines and make sure
everything's okay and i will know
that here in late august of 2020 we at
least have new pads all the way around
miranda
all right so got the caliper off and
again we can get a good look at how much
brake pads i do
i really think it was closer like 75
they may have even done these
uh at the texas dealership there before
i left but you know i put on a lot of
miles like 25 000 miles since then
and so we're just gonna we're gonna
start over and uh put new pads in here
each set of pads also includes uh brand
new hardware and uh springs and stuff
for that so we're gonna go ahead and
swap all this stuff at brand new
hardware and then looking at the new one
on the left and the old one on the right
yeah i think i was right on about 65
about 65 left
but because these are going to be
thicker now i got to work on the
calipers and
compress them a little more to get these
to fit in the new ones
so we're going to use a c-clamp there to
push the pistons into the calipers a
little more so that so that this
whole caliper will fit back on with the
with the new pads i got the
pistons compressed they're ready to take
the new pads
got the new hardware on there got the
two new pads on there
gonna throw this guy back together and
see how she fits
all right now got the caliper and pads
uh just kind of placed on the rotor
there so we can test fit it
just to see how it looks how it fits it
works didn't have to uh
lose any brake fluid or open anything up
now i'm just gonna put pistons back on
there right there
and then see how she all looks and fits
all right put some uh brake grease on
the bolts before we put it back together
it's all on there secure
everything is back to normal looks good
last steps gonna be to put on the tire
and then have somebody test drive the rv
to make sure everything
that's just one down yeah we still still
got three more to go here so we got a
ways to go and we got to get tricky with
how we're gonna
pop up the other side over there to get
the other wheel off the ground
but uh yeah that was basically easy
enough the new hardware on there looks
good
and uh didn't have to lose any brake
fluid so it's all good that was easy
how come les schwab just can't figure
this stuff out i mean come on
so
and then once we get the wheel dropped
i'll tighten them all up with the hand
crank to the right specs
all right well the sun has set it took a
little bit longer to finish
the other the the passenger side rear
over there
and honestly it was a lot easier to do
the passenger
front than it was it's just the first
time doing it you know
takes some getting used to but now i've
seen and helped and learned how to do it
myself so
i feel good about that i know exactly
the condition of my rotors and how my
calipers are working correctly
and uh i know when the last time the
pads are replaced and i'll probably do
that every 25 000 miles
probably you know i mean it felt good to
be a part of it i always throw all my
mechanical stuff to somebody else and
i'm starting and trying to learn to be a
little more proactive and do it myself
but you know i don't know everything and
i have to admit that sometimes so
i appreciate andrew's help again if
you're a professional asc mechanic
come on come on guys if you want to give
me some advice
great but you don't need to criticize me
and tell me everything i did wrong every
single time nobody's going to give you a
cookie
look do you see any cookies i have no
cookies i don't even travel with cookies
so okay you got big strong muscles and
you're cooler than me i get it
i don't get it actually throughout this
whole day i still have not decided if
i'm even gonna air this video
i don't know it worked it worked really
really well
so i don't know let me think about it
and
if you're seeing this i appreciate you
watching the video uh maybe it gives you
more confidence
to do your own breaks on your rv or
vehicle and uh yeah we'll see what's
next
gotta hit the road soon though so
there's that okay
from jackson i will see you next time
bye guys
me
