3rd gen front disc brakes Q

Do I need to put my Tacoma in maintenance mode or something similar to replace front pads and rotors? 2019. I replaced pads on my buddy’s subaru with eyesight and had to do this.
Thanks

 

Just did front pads on my 2018 last week. Nothing special, just replaced the pads, topped up the brake fluid and drove on. Well designed and easy to do, no resetting lights or modes or anything fancy.

 

Just be careful pushing the four pistons back on a Tacoma. If you use a c-clamp against one side, the opposite pistons can pop out if you go too fast.

 

thanks! If I do one side at a time opposite side will hit rotor and should prevent this. Do you have any experience on removing the rotors?

 

Thank you for that. Do you think removing rotors will be standard based on what you saw in there?

 

Standard rotor. Pull the caliper and you're good to go.

 

sweet. Thank you very much!

 

If I remember correctly, there is a hard brake line to the caliper. You have to pull the bracket where the hard line connects to the hose so that you don't kink the hard line.

 

Yes, I’m always very careful with lines and speed sensors because I’ve learned my lesson on that one. Thanks for the tip!

 

I honestly didn’t even look because this is the first pad replacement on my truck and the rotors are still good. I imagine they’re pretty standard removal for Toyota and not some difficult Euro style.
If you’re doing pads for the first time and you don’t have any brake vibrations or pulsation, you’ll prob be ok using the same rotors for another set of pads. Others may chime-in and warn you not to do it but I’ve been doing this for years and haven’t had any problems. Your time and money though.

Also, to push all 4 pistons back on one caliper, I used two screwdrivers and pried against the two old brake pads simultaneously while cracking the bleeder screw. It’s awkward, but can be done. Good luck.

 

I am getting vibrations coming down the mountain passes once they get hot so that’s the only reason I’m doing both. I’ve worked on cars my whole life so I know normal brakes. That Subaru was weird because I had to get an app on my phone to put brakes in maintenance mode in order to replace pads and I wasn’t sure if that was standard on all collision detection cars.

 

Adjust the parking brake to compensate for shoe wear as well.

You’ll get a better firmer pedal and more help from the rear brakes in the mountains

 

I will definitely do that. Brake ratio is way too forward leaning

 

Doing a job is always a good excuse to buy tools. This one will compress all four pistons nice and smooth all at once.

 

Cool tool, wonder if I can get by the cfo at home.lol.

 

Don't forget to grab an 8mm bolt I believe to pop the rotor from the hub. I just did my pads and rotors the other day and had no issues.

I do have the caliper spreader shown above, but ended up using the 2 screwdriver trick. Also I opened the bleeder to let the pressure out instead of forcing it back through the expensive system. I ended up gravity draining about half my brake fluid doing it this way.