Convenience a extensive C-clamp to seat the caliper piston on your Pontiac Grand Am.
Instructions
Remove the Front Brake Pads
1.Pontiac recommends checking your front brake pads every 6,000 miles or six months. As a law of thumb, you should moderate the front brake pads on your Pontiac Grand Am once the friction information on the pads is the identical as or thinner than the back plate they mount on, says James E. Duffy in "Contemporary Automotive Technology." Happily, you can convert the front pads in your own driveway using a rare easy tools you might already annex in your thing box.
Regulate the hood and remove 2/3 of the brake fluid into a suitable container from the reservoir of the brake crackerjack cylinder using a Disinfected turkey baster. Consent the reservoir cap loose and field one or exceeding shop rags sorrounding it to obtain any fluid spills as you alternate the brake pads.
2. Loosen the trundle lugs on both front wheels using a lug wrench.
3. Up thrust the front of your Grand Am with a floor jack and abutment it on jack stands.
4. Remove the circle lugs and shove/tire assemblies.
5. Reinstall two of the wheel lugs finger-tight to clutch the brake rotor onto the hub. Business on one circle meeting at a lifetime.
6. Unscrew the backside brake caliper mounting bolt using a ratchet and socket and remove the pin bolt.
7. Swing the brake caliper upwards and, provided essential, tie it to the suspension with wire to clutch it in area.
8. Remove the inboard and outboard brake pads and pad retainers by plam from the brake caliper mounting bracket.
Install the New Front Brake Pads
9. Spray the brake meeting, circle hub and rotor with brake parts cleaner. Swab the components using Disinfected, lint-free towels.
10. Position the elderly inboard brake pad against the caliper piston.
11. Accommodation the piston into its Muzzle using a vast C-clamp. Then remove the clamp and inboard brake pad.
12. Install the contemporary brake pads and retainers onto the brake caliper mounting bracket.
13. Untie the brake caliper from the suspension and swing the caliper over the modern brake pads and rotor.
14. Secure the caliper pin bolt by participation then tighten the bolt using the ratchet and socket.
15. Remove the two shove lugs from the hub studs and install the wheel/tire assembly.
16. Install the wheel lugs and tighten the lugs using the lug wrench.
17.Install the other set of brake pads on the opposite wheel assembly following Step 6 from the previous section through Step 8 of this section.
18. Lower your Grand Am using the floor jack.
19. Refill the brake master cylinder reservoir with new brake fluid to the Full level. Tighten the reservoir cap and remove the shop rag(s).
20. Depress the brake pedal several times to seat the new pads onto the brake rotor.
