In this video I am swapping out the front pads and rotors on a customers Buick Encore with the big 1.4 liter. It is a pretty simple job most of the time. This particular one had some seized up caliper pins though. Still not to big of a deal.
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Interviewers: Welcome back to the Softman off Channel That's a 2017 Buick It's the Encore premium with the big one for needs some front brakes. It's got a C's caliper pin I Think the bottom one here was a little bit tight so we're gonna have to fix that. Let's get after it. get some light here.
Hopefully you guys can see. Hopefully I can see now this one. We've already done some videos in Blower Motor got some rear brake action control arms tie rod end I Needed everything. It's got a lot of miles on it.
180 000 or so 10 mil. Remove these. there's one. there's two.
We'll set them into this side right there. Find the lift. We'll pull our caliper back now. before we get too far, we need to make sure that this caliper can compress.
We're just going to give her a push back in here with our backy tool. There you go. That's good. You're not making a YouTube video, let her swing by the hose.
but if you are, put a hook in it and then we're gonna take them little guys out. 18 millimeters at least on the one I'm working on. they've gotten Loctite on them from the factory. Give her a little Kumbaya there.
Shimon There's that one Now we'll grab the ugly dug a gun. Yeah we'll move this up. One click stretching the hose too much. let me, uh, shove it back there.
we go now. Can you see? Kind of didn't help at all. wrong way. I Know Mercy Reversy Get your bracket out of the way.
Oh gosh, Before I make a little noise, we're gonna grab our T30 very light ugga Dugas here. This came right now. Usually it just blows your bed apart. Oh look at that.
This one's shiny clean already so we don't even have to clean that. Wow! Lucky us. Get the fluid film. give it a spritz go down to Napa get yourself a brand new router.
Boom! Slip it on, take your T30 we're gonna tighten that up very very lightly. I'm talking we're putting on setting one, but we're only going to use 0.25 of the other nugget string. There you go. Make sure you leave the comment how that is not supposed to go back in I'll be disappointed if I don't see that down there.
So I've always found it interesting when I see that comment which we see quite often people are like that's only for assembly. It's interesting because it's in service data. They have a Torx back in and it's part of the process. Do you need it? No.
I'm not disagreeing with that. You don't need it, but some people get all pissy about it. I Can't wait to put that in I should step your facing garbage can. Whoa dude.
get Hardware off. Now this is risque. We're gonna lightly hug and dug of this but we're gonna make sure she's not just going to snap your head. Let's go the other way.
Sometimes you just give them cracked loose a little bit. negative. Ghost Rider Let's go stick this in the vise. Let's peel this little thing off here first.
I'll tell you that much of things get some. Flush Cutters That'll work. Oh yeah, now we can see. Don't cut it unless you have a new one which I Knew this was seasoned up when we started. so I Pre-ordered there. we go. Now we can see. Let's give her another whack of the other gun.
You gotta be careful because you can just snap the hydrate clean off. Let's heat her up a little bit. give her a little Spin and see if it comes out. we won't break out Vic Just yet.
Let's try a little map gas. You guys heat these up and you'd think the pin would go blowing out. but if you're using a little bit and you turn this thing red, I've seen the casting blow out right back in your face so be careful. We're creating a little missing here I Might have to get mixed.
This takes way too long. my patients are out. Yeehaw Did you see it? Puff the Bulls R Us up Don't I yeah I Just don't have your face in front of it. It can get you I'm going to take and sandblast this little guy.
We'll get her blasted off the pin or a blast off with the pads. Go and we'll blast off. We'll blast everything. Boom.
Everything's blasted. Pins bracket everything. Wipe the grease off the good Pin like I say I Bought us a boot kit from Napper. We're gonna take and put the a little grease on the outside here.
Okay, right where the boot's gonna go. That's the important part because if it gets all rusty out here, then crap gets under your boot and so that's what you want to do. That's the most important thing you can do in your life. We get the whole pin all the way to the top.
Same thing. So that way when the boot goes on, it seals up there, she seals noise. Put that baby on. We'll give it a little extra on here for good measure that we're going in.
Oh yeah, there's that boot. Same thing over here. smear some around the Barb Who's Barb I Guess that's not a Barb I don't know what it is. kind of Barbed in the groove.
We'll shine that one up, stick our boot on, give it a spin to distribute the grease around that. Groove going all the way. Wipe off the excess foreign. We used a Super Lube silicone bait Grease Food grade Dielectric meets USDA guidelines.
All right. So there's that. Now we'll get the high temp silly Ramek 3 000 degrees. We'll give it a little squirt here.
a little squirt there. Well, that's a lot of Squirt actually and just a half a squirt here because I've got too much on that side. Get your brush, get it all over everything. Try to keep her from getting rusty.
That's why we put it under the hardware because in our part of the world we have rust. endless amounts of it. All right. Once you fill up the cranny and the Nooks put yourself on some new hardware foreign, we'll make sure our pads fit.
Got some of the silent guards? Boom there they are. inside. Pad's got a Squealer outside the bed does not. That's your Squealer wear indicator.
what do you want to call it? Now These pads fit super loose in here, which is great. There's that one this one here and that one fits super loose. Fantastic! Let's go put our bracket on Shake yourself up some. Loctite I'm using the orange variety. you probably can't see. It holds like red releases like blue. It's the gel type. It's stupid expensive for what it is I don't know why, but it is so we're gonna smear that on both bolts.
Good coating of the orange of course. I've got a nice shadow here so nobody can see. Stick our bracket up there. Put your bolts in.
there's that one. Grab yourself torque setting one. there's that pull out. get your torsion wrench, turn it on Sutter 118 ftlbs's and then pull to hear it click or vibrate.
There's that 118. come over here. get your pants. Peg Schlapper Squealer at the top, put on the outside one.
Oh, you're almost done. Now We need some slimy stuff here. Unhook your caliper if you have it hanging by a hook. Pretend like you're supporting it with your hand as it hangs by the hose.
unscrew the cap from your silly ramek. Yeah, we're gonna screw the little inside the ear here and we're running low. Don't look. I'm still support I'm supporting it with my forearm, my wrist.
Okay, there we go. A little there. a little on the Piston face. I'll show you what's up.
so we got some on the Piston face. It's fanelic so you don't really need to do this, but we still do grease up the Piston face the inside ears here. This jerk can actually move his leg. Let's see, everything's plastic.
Can you see? Nope. Can you see now? Somewhat so right in here, smeared around with your finger? Oh yeah. I'll get you. I'll show you where it's at I Love this stuff.
Feels so good So there do your inside ears. You know what? I'm saying Piston face. Spin it around, find something to wipe your finger off on your pants. will do.
Hold it right there. Hold it right there. Put that bulb in there. put that bolt in there.
Grab your Augie Doggy gun. Where'd it go? It's right here now. Switch out your socket, put your 10 mil on torque setting. one turn on your torque wrench light.
Please snug it up. Grab your torque crunch 21 ftlbs. Pull your tilty vibrates 24.6 way over 22.8 close enough. Give her one of them and that's it folks.
You're all done. Hope you enjoyed the video lighting here always sucks. It's a great shot, nice and bright but making videos it sucks. So there's your front brakes on your Buick Encore uh with the big one for caliper moves nice and free.
We need to go out and burnish in the pads yet? And before you do that, pump up your brakes and put your wheel on too. Don't drive this thing without the wheels and pump them brakes on. and make sure you check the brake fluid too I'll make sure that's full and that's pretty much all you got to do. Drive around burnish them in per manufacturers instructions.
um, some some like it hot and heavy, some like them long and slow so you gotta look and see how they want it and I know how I want you I want you in that comment section Questions: Comments: Stay and Steve the Facebook not on Tick Tock though and just my viewers. If I can do it, you can do it. Thanks for watching.
I have 115k on mine. Needs all the same stuff. Love the car but sure doesn't like dirt roads.
They say that in Canada aboot!
Great video as usual .
Can you show how to replace 2019 Buick Enclave rear brake. They have electronic parking brake. I have no scanner
Thanks
They say that bolt is for assembly right?? Well you're assembling the brakes! Can't make it up! People are nuts
burnish burnish burnish, the wheel of fire, the wheel of fire
“No mercy reversey, WHATS IT GOT ERIC O?!?!!!” Neutral drop needs to come make an appearance as a fellow New Yorker.
So, this lives the winters locked in a garage in Florida? Never seen a non-rotted underside for a 2017 in the rust belt. Thanks
Why didn't your torque the retaining screw? Don't you know that the torque on that screw directly affects the balance of the brake discs and not only that, can make the wheel rim out of balance and the tyre wear out in as little as 500 miles, what are you doing you absolute maniac?!
Thank you Eric! another great video! You are a Master.
so is Napper FINALLY a sponsor???
If you did nothing but brake videos, I'd still watch and love every one of them!
Eric is so smooth, even the Amish love his videos
I wonder if using the dry lubricant on the pens would be better then grease .the grease seems to gum up .
Eric ,I keep trying to see what make, model impact you using here and some of the other vids I'm watching ,happy 4th weekend 🇨🇦
Thanks for the pro tip to simulate supporting the caliper…I'll definitely pretend to support the caliper or tell others to look away as needed for all my future brake jobs.
do you ever flush the brake fluid as part of brake work?
That's not supposed to go back in, Eric! 😛
The reason the loctite is super expensive is because we'll pay the price.
Speaking of checking the brake fluid, I try to remember to make sure the master cylinder isn't completely full before I press the pistons back in the calipers. I think the quick lube places like to (un-necessarily) top off the fluid. Cheers
@SouthMainAuto Eric, first time commenter, long time watcher. I have a question about the position of the wear indicator on the inside pad. I noticed the original pads had the wear indicator in the bottom position and when you reinstalled them you put the wear indicator in the top position. I’m not a mechanic, just a measly diy’er, but from the limited information I can find on the web it says that the wear indicator on the pad should be in the most forward position. So in this case that should have been the position the original pads were in. Does it really matter which way the wear indicator goes or is it vehicle specific? If so perhaps the original pads were installed backwards? Also what is your take on removing the rubber grommet on the calliper slide and not reinstalling it? It seems it can be more troublesome by trapping moisture in the calliper slide pin bore causing rust to form and eventually seizing the calliper slide pin in the bore?
❤ I can do it. Not really but it sounds good.
Very good timing! Today I did the front brakes on my wife's 2016 Encore. Nothing like having a professional how-to as a go-by. Thank you!
That's a good brake job right there.
Put it back. Always follow specs. Doing the right thing is what keeps us out of trouble!
Enjoyed watching O. perform a brake job for like the 15th time. Would I watch a 16th? You bet.
Your supposed to put a new crush washer on that rotor screw. Lol
😮 do you have a tictoc page because I seen on and people comments say it's fake
NAPA, not a sponsor?
❤ great job as always. Question: do you remove all air when fitting pin slider boot or leave a bit of air in the boot?
Hey Eric, just wondering what is the purpose of putting silicone grease on the caliper? Rust prevention or pad noise or both🤔.
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if rotor retainer screw/s are not rusted to hell and back, needing broken off/cut/drilled(usually yes), I put them back in, because it's awfully nice when rotors don't fall off on your feet. 🥸🥳
Sick!!!
So, I have a question. Why is it that one of the slide pins will usually have a section of rubber near the end?
Lol oh the things people get pissy about. Rotor screws.
The classis "forearm support"…gotta love it!
sounds like he says the "self made auto channel" is that just me?
What no Brake cleaner?! 🫢
Great video as always!!! You would think I would know better not to go cranking down on the caliper pin from watching you all these years, I get a Nissan Rogue from Staten Island, and the Pin snapped right off in my hand🙄
Nice
Huh…. Not a drop of brake cleaner…
You don't need to screw on the rotor….
Where'd the coveralls go?
Tuning in just to find out what big engine the encore has.
Why do some of those slide pins have rubber at the bottom of them?
LOL, Best Video Ever!!
Excellent mechanic and teacher!
I’m impressed how clean under the cars look on cars he works on are! I know in the winter that’s no the case however!
One of the best videographers on YouTube. It's fun to go back and watch some of your early videos. You've come a long way Mr. O.
Watching even a simple job can help a diy job go better.
Who's Barb? She's Brenda's twin sister, she lived across the street back in fifth grade.
I thought I know how to do brake jobs until I watch your videos. Now I realized I could have done better.
Just done both struts on the front of a citreon c4 had to cut the drop links off as once on they just don't want to come off. Replaced the drop links as well with the right ones OEM the others are not nice.
Thanks for the video 👍
I bet you could have done this blindfolded! Nonetheless, its more interesting than the crap I did all day! TY NJ
By far the best automotive repair channel on YouTube. Keep em coming Mr. O.. Cheers
Glad to see someone else using Super Lube. I've been using it since the late 90s. Great stuff.
180000 miles? ….is it on its 2nd or 3rd engine…LOL
I really appreciated the part about not forgetting to put on the wheel!!!
That small screw, it only purpose is to hold hold the brake disc in place.
Pointless and useless screw.
Just like women. Some want it hot and heavy and others like it low and slow and others like a combination. Low and slow and then hot and heavy! And just like a Chevy they keep cuming back for more! 😂
Great video. What the break in period on them brake pads ?
So let me see if I understood you, put the wheels back on before the test drive ???? LOL
I'll tell any mechanic, put my car back the way it was when it came into your shop. No alterations of any kind without consent. That torx screw for the rotors has its use, not much, but those who believe discarding it from someone elses vehicle has their own screw loose.
That screw shouldn't be reused, That's only for assembly!!! I mean, you asked us to post that, I'm just doing as you said LOL!!!!!!!!!
" i should stuff your face in a garbage can "
So I want to know why you can't open the bleed screw, and dump the contaminated fluid out into a container instead of forcing it back into the master cylinder.
I know, a couple of minutes more, but there's nothing dirtier than nasty brake fluid in a caliper
That bolt ain't suppose to go back in!
Bro Eric, why don’t you put and lube on the contact points of the brake pad and the brake hardware? I try to make sure I never have any chance of a squeak or squeal. Thanks!
Looks easy. Here I go!
I accidentally clicked and skipped a little bit forward and saw a torch. Immediately thought "uh ohhh"
Should rename this channel, South Brake Auto! 🙂 Keep up the Rookie work!
My son has the sister car of that the Trax. Glad to hear it can last that long.
Nice work
You were pretty funny today.
good job boss
50 yrs of doing brake jobs revealed to me many years back that 90% of severely warped rotors are the direct result of people who drive with 2 feet, 1 on the brake and 1 on the gas. I started asking people to take me on the test drive after the brake job so I could see how they drive.
When I was young I did repair brakes on gangster cars, some would melt their brakes in under 5000. Those were GOOD paying jobs I tell yeah.
My genius DIY friends would say, "Oh, the rotors are warped because some rookie mechanic OVER-torqued the wheel nuts." C'mon now, if you put that amount of torque on a wheel stud, you WILL break the stud off. Modern cars have such junky, and poorly designed phony Mags from the factory, that if you do NOT ensure they are on tight before you blast across the country at Warp 9, 1 of those wheels WILL come loose. I stopped relying on Tire shops to torque the junky Mags on tight enough because I would get the car back and there would be a vibration, because "junior" was put in charge of mounting your wheels.
The last 2 times I bought Tires at Costco, watching their associates jump up and down on the torque wrench, that took the Will to buy Tires at Costco right out of me: forever.
Always check your own tires with your own tire wrench before launching 1000 miles across the country, if you are a serious driver that miles out cars every year, make sure you check your wheel nuts yourself before you launch, because some cars have junky Mags and equally crappy wheel nuts with shiny covers that fall apart over time from repeated mountings with air impacts.
Live long, protect others and check your wheel nuts regularly for any mega mileage drivers out there. Great channel, as always Eric does a totally pro installation.
For the longest time, I thought Eric was saying "Self Made Auto Channel"
😂😅😂
I guess it is a self made auto channel right? Anyways, love the videos!
No reason not to put the brake disc screw back when it goes that easy. Also no reason to sweat over it if it happened to break off while trying to get it out. If it is one of those low profile nuts they put on cars that have studs in the hub then i may get a bitt pissy if they have been put back. The screw just makes your life easier if its in working order.
Not much better than a good ole brake job with Eric O. Thanks for the advive to put on the wheel. Most likey I'd have forgotten them and wondered why the car moves so slow! 😂
In the past you've said to wipe the rotors down because they come with oil or something on them. Are they different now and don't need the wipe down?
Electronic torque wrench, what won't they think of next?
Tick Tock, isn't that the sound that a clock or proper wrist or pocket watch makes? Why would I post a comment on a clock or wrist or pocket watch? 😁
Yes yes. Thanks
always love a good, detailed brake job always working to do the best job possible is my motto i put a bit of lube on brakes had so many problems with sticking pads down in PA not as rusty as where you are but stuff gets stuck and does not work right.
Your brake job videos inspired me to attack my wife’s RDX this past winter. New front pads and rotors, cleaned up the rear brakes. Not satisfied, conquered my Honda Element with new pads all the way around. Now onto my very first new car, 1974 AMC Javelin AMX. Geez. I hope I can still get pads and shoes for it! 😎
Eric….. "Come On Man!!" Do I really have to put the wheels back on? 😁
Even when you’ve got the sh@ts, you’re a funny bastard, Eric. Keep on keeping on.
"Food grade dielectric" The EO Comedy Show in fine fettle. 🤣
I don’t even torque those rotor hat screws, makes them super nice to remove when not torqued at all.
Eric living in the rust belt requires more out of a man hahaha 😝
Uh oh those blue ball joint boots usually mean Mevotech—total JUNK.
Brake jobs never get old with Mr. O!
You say if I can do it you can do it, hmm not so sure on my car. It has a bunch of codes something with 2nd air flow then stability and abs lights just crazy. Kinda makes me weary when garage says leave it for the pros or you will break something
🎉sweet
As always like your brake video, you are w/o a doubt as smooth and thorough as they come. You beat the flat rate book everytime. Love your stuff and keep up the good videos. Yes the damn rotor screws belong there and go back. Some of these keyboard experts need a good cleansing enema.
Your videos are never boring thanks
The only way crap gets under my boot is when some dog owners don’t pickup 😂
but if I drive with the wheels on … they will get dirty …….. you funny
I saw the newer control arms and immediately thought “Eric has shown this car before” lol
Another informative video. I never get tired of watching you work on stuff. Thanks Eric.