Hey there, viewers welcome back to the southpaw channel, that's a 2003 dodge dakota a relic. It's got the big three nine in it automatic two-wheel, peeler uh, and i failed it for inspection because i'm a prick, that's what some people think uh either way. I'm just fond of state laws. I don't make the guidelines.

We just have to abide by them, as they say, not a lot of stuff wrong power, steering pumps pissing all over the rear, wheel. Studs, that's got some broke off, some that were missing. Some that were strips. You got ta have all your wheel, studs in the people's republic, here of new york, to pass state inspection.

Your ball joints can be fallen out, but you need all your wheel studs. So we need to fix that we need to fix the power steering leak. He wanted a couple front tires uh on there, and i think that was oh and the money light was on. Has a bad o2 sensor, one that's getting lazy, so we got ta smack that in there do the drive cycle and whack them and stick them step.

One was remove the tire which i've already done, uh step. Two. We got ta pull this caliper off. You can't see crap, not the darn good thing.

I don't get paid to make movies it'd be called the movie. I can't see crack so there's that now we got ta slide. This baby off make sure pins are free here, push down a little. That's stuck not to worry, though folks, not to worry we're gon na push the piston in just a swisher, so they're picking this baby up.

Whoever just did the brake job on did a poopy job. We need to get that inner pad up. They must have just bashed that baby down in there oh way to go idaho. Maybe they didn't know any better, come on baby.

There we go, you got ta work, both these pads up and you got ta say, work it and work it girl. There we go just like that, of course, we're gon na have to fix that we're gon na roll, but yeah those pads are brand new somebody's. Just in there there you go flip that bad boy off - oh gotcha, again old boy, tried to slip one past this with the old one to forget about my parking brake shoe just made that up. We need parking brake shoes, past the inspection uh.

I see the parking brake actuators work, but the parking brake didn't hold, so i assumed it had no friction material which he was aware of and now we know, and now we have to see if napa who doesn't sponsor us, has some of them bad mothers that They can send up to us, so we can fix it. Yeah jerkley never even had the hardware off it gosh there we got her moving now must be, they never took them bad babies off lots of rust buildup in there and then somebody saying something: oh no! It's a neighbor and then we got ta scrape the rusty krusty's off there come on baby. I just use a screwdriver because it really pisses some guys off in the comments. That's all right.

They didn't want me to hit it, don't put a metal end on it. I'm not gon na lie there. We go now we're cooking. Perfect parts are on their way.

Napper did not have them, so they couldn't even sponsor us if they wanted to make sure when you, if you're beating them in, be aware, there's a speed sensor in there. Do not whack that baby into the speed sensor? Oh, we got two of them here that are boogered up. Maybe i could go get a smaller hammer. Eight ounces! That's all that baby is.

I did a good job, so we got those out uh we're going to peel the shoes. This was just going to be a studly stud video, but i guess we're going to turn it into a parking brake video. Can you guys see so we'll see if we can't just pop that little guy for right now? I think these come apart, pretty easy same thing on this side in case you can't see what i'm doing. Let's see here there we go we'll take both the nails off there nailed it.

You ever watch that show with that one lady. I think they make cakes and stuff. What are we laughing at? That's the one where they bake all the crappy food right yeah. They bake, cakes and whatnot.

Ah then, we take the lower spring off there and we should be able to pull out the adjuster, which is right. There. Look at this not even looking and then let me back you up, then up top here might have to go. Get a tool for this shield single springer she's, a single springer, not a jerry springer or maybe, if we could just just go like that, use your manly man skills uh.

Then you get that off. So that's it! The shoes are off uh like i say, the actuators did work and they still do, but you can pop it apart. We can give it a grease job when the time comes, but we'll leave it like that. We'll wait for our parts.

I couldn't get this nail out there. We go so there's other nail now. Sometimes i do. I do really appreciate this style.

Retainer. This style is my absolute fave versus the ones that you got to push in and then turn these here are very user friendly. So, depending on the condition of yours, what you have to watch is the nail, so this retaining nail up here in the salt belt, these get real rusty and they'll break and then the shoe comes out and hits the rotor no fun, not a fun day. Uh.

Actually, most people don't even know it just chews it all up. Let's get this cleaned up clean up this pulling our studs wait for the other people who don't sponsor us to bring our brick parts. So you're gon na see six of those little standoffs three on each side. That's where the brake shoe sits, that's where it rests rub again, so we'll put a little, never seas or some lubricant there.

So clean them off. If you have a backing plate left, i don't wear this truck's from obviously not new york. 03 still has a frame left, whoa, fella, calm down. Oh that's! What girl's getting where she needs some oil when my tools start to season up always oil them.

That is the rule uh. We got some wheel studs here, serrated stud, half 20., your classic 641-2184 from you-know-who you are they correct. They appear to be correct. We'll get that baby, then we'll go get some lubrication we'll get a stud installer time to bring out the dog the 1890 thor.

I call it it's the most powerful impact in the world. You just need to ask yourself one question: uh anywho. We got some of this here from lucas uh, it's extreme. I don't know if it's a good lubricant to use on this, but it does say extreme and extreme pressure and it seems like this is going to take a lot of pressure, so i've always used it on my tool.

Again, i don't know if it's the proper stuff, but i think i had some from some other job. I don't know what we were doing wheel or head bolts, maybe or something who knows so - we're going to take and pull this bad boy in they're half by 20 thread. This is the half by 20 stud installer. There we go a little thor, give it a tug, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down where'd that go we'll.

Let you see the dangle from a different angle, a lot of a lot of forces here to overcome. I don't know why they don't build some kind of bearing apparatus here, we're just doing a pure friction and thunder burnout. Why it's hotter than mother love different flavors same great, sound, a little paster up with the never seas here, mm-hmm now i've already whizzy wheeled these, not wizzy wheeled them. I wire wheeled them kind of like a whizzy wheel, just to make them bright and shiny.

I'm bad boys around now we're gon na take a little, never seas, also and on these little mounting pads here, where the brakes should slide now that the parking brake will ever get used, but if it does we're doing a proper job. So we'll do that uh! You know before we get too far there fella, we get all excited. Take this little guy out there we go just put a little lube around that pin we go there, we go there, that's back in there keep that pivot from seas. It's a pretty they're pretty loose fit.

They typically don't seize, but anyways. Now that i've smeared it everywhere's awesome wouldn't be never season unless we did get there and there. Last but not least, that's it got ta go talk to a customer and wash my baddies. I think it's already in my armpits dude do fastest parts delivery.

I've ever had advanced, auto, sponsor uh. They must have been on their way because that was quick. Let's see if we can get lucky like i try to do every day and stick this spring right here right here see if we can give her one of those might be able to might not be able to oh yeah. The only way you wouldn't be able to do that is, if you're a complete wuss bag that went pretty smooth.

Now we got ta stick the nail in from the back side. Here we can we're gon na have to do this, one blind, nope val. It goes uh i'll, show you where it goes. I feel like i'm cheating, i can look at the computer screen or the camera screen uh.

It's not helping me any come on baby got three kids. You think i'd be better than this. There we go. What's that got ta do with that choker! Oh boy! I don't know if i'm gon na be able to keep my finger in there and keep the nail out.

I think so. Ah i'll tell you what i'm gon na get a lovely assistant come right around there. Sweetie see see on the back side here, there's a there's, a hole right there that i stick my finger in yeah yeah. Stick your finger in there! Okay, push push in! You feel you feel that thing pushing against you.

Okay, you got to keep that pushed in all right, okey-dokey. Aren't it jokey, shiitake mushrooms? Isn't that what you say in places saying the other word that rhymes with it? Okay, are you holding it in there yep? Okay, don't move! I got ta get things lined up. Are you freaking out at me no come on baby at this moment, freaking hate this style. We just got ta get her lined up here, folks um.

What are you laughing at that then push it in sweetie? Are you holding in on it tight yeah? Okay, just a minute: okay, you can relax for a second okay. Tell me when you're ready, ready, you ready, you're pushing it in good. Okay, wait right! There still pushing out on you babe yeah, okay! Here it is. Let me change your finger.

You're gon na change. Finger yeah: okay, let's see here all right, you see what i'm trying to do here. Yeah we got ta, get it to go through that little slot and then once it's through, we got ta be able to turn it. This special turning apparatus out is it hurt.

Yeah huh he's pushing okay. Let's try again there we go gotti gotti, easy huh that was easy right. Yeah go get the easy button, go get the easy button trinity! Let the people hear it just so they know what kind of job this was you ready? That was easy, you're darn right it was now we got ta, do the same thing on this side, this side's a little easier because technically, if the camera wasn't in the way, i could hold this one myself right now. Freaking never sees do you want to hold this one too babe, yeah.

Okay, all right! You see it under here. That's what you got you get under there a little further. You see it yeah! Okay! You hold that one all right, my guy! Oh! I just meant. We got rotated a little bit, stop right.

There, that's good, get her out here where we can get to it. Yeah these things will make you learn a third language. Let me tell you what once you get them, though they slip right in, but well they're stupid or i'm stupid more than the other, like that, one textbook that one went textbook. That was we're all done, uh the other way.

You can do it. If you don't have this special tool, a pair of needle nose, if you come up on the edge of them like that, and you can push the spring down and have an assistant push the nail in and then rotate it don't be. Ten you're gon na be tempted to grab the head of that nail with these and twist chances are you'll twist the head off now, just to be sure where'd the rest of the adjuster go what the frig, as i was saying, just to be sure that you Get never seized everywhere, lube up our forcing screw here you don't need a ton mm-hmm da da and just like that we got her by golly. I don't want to get uh fluid from all over the friction material, so we're just gon na cover that up with a rag just like that, i took a little bit of the good stuff wiped off my shoes because they were a little cruddy clean.

The inside of the brake rotor, where it sits on the face of the axle and slip it just like. So let's find a wheel nut. I went ahead and pulled the pads out of the caliper, so we could clean up the edges of them where they slip on here, we'll take and just lube up the caliper piston over here we'll loop up the ears here on the outside of the caliper. We'll stick this baby back in there without getting it in the grease.

Oh yeah! There we go and then this one was a little bit wiggly in there. So i tightened up the clips on it there. She goes make sure that when this one snaps in that it's actually sitting flush and not all cattywampus out here sitting on one of the pins, sometimes uh, particularly here in the rust belt, these holes right here will get full of schmutz and the rust. And then it doesn't allow the male half to sit inside the female half.

You know it's kind of one of those one of those things i don't know if you're allowed to say that kind of stuff, nowadays, male and female, i guess we need to see how the caliper identifies to be politically correct, but i've never been real political or Correct i'm gon na put just a little bit of lube right here, starting in there. Let me get a little brush and get in there and wiggle around. Oh, i hear the meat wagon so yeah we get it in there. There we go.

We just want to be able to lube up inside there a little bit and we'll get this started again. On that side, push push there, she comes, make sure it clicks on the lip there. We go we'll wipe that off. We'll do the same thing, the other one.

This style here doesn't have a tendency to set up what will happen, though, if it does seize up, it's usually not the pin. It's usually where the rubber goes through here. Take the pin out squeeze this rubber i'll show. You, i guess i just show you take this here, for example like and then come on baby, and then you just take the whole thing out and usually it's all rusted up through here through the hole and uh you clean that out put a little lube on It pop that in and that'll keep it from giving the big squeeze.

So, let's see here we're gon na lube that just a little bit right there and then to get these back in. Sometimes it's easy to take them and just fold them like a little hot dog, bun you're like hey, you want to come to my hot dog party like that and then it'll straighten back up. Stick it in boom good to go so there you learned something possibly learn not to let this guy do your brake job. Talking about me.

I feel bad for a guy guy drove all the way here from new york city today, uh didn't understand why i couldn't bring his vehicle right in. There was a bit of a language barrier, but he drove up here because he saw us on youtube and he had a big old grocery list of stuff. He wanted done. I'm like look dude, i'm i'm a month out on appointments.

Oh whoa uh that girl's really cranking um wanted me to do this whole bunch of stuff. I'm like look man, you know you got ta, have an appointment, didn't understand. It didn't want to take no for an answer, but he got my point after a while. So now that i wasn't willing to work on it, just he had like two days worth of work you wanted done in one day i had no parts and plus i you know, i already got a full ship baby.

Okay. Why does it sound like that when i roll it over it's because the other side is kind of half toward bart just dragging right now we still got to finish that side. We're going to stick that on here. Like so come on, good man come on man.

There we go, let's look down there like so we're gon na get the bottom. I should have depressed that piston. Yet ding dong, we got ta, get the piston pushed back in a little bit and there we go okay. Now we're happy everybody's happy.

We get it all lined up hold that top pin out give her the clicker it will snap down. You got some tension there from the outside pad on that spring. Once it's down, that's it put your bolts in you're going to want your torque spec. You got to look those up in service data for your particular vehicle and then torque these down to factory spec, make sure you start these by hand, they're pretty thin threads and they do go into cast, so they don't take a whole lot of cross threads.

I mean you shouldn't cross anything, but okay, there we go, i'm gon na get torx back, tighten them up. So what we have to do now, folks, is the other side. Now i got ta bore you with that, because that's just silly once that's done we'll throw the wheels on we'll adjust the parking brake shoes out, see if anybody's fiddled with the cable, which it doesn't look like once that's adjusted out, then everything should work and i'll Show you that momentarily now that both sides are done folks, make sure your actuator, so where the cable hooks the actuator make sure that is returned all the way back as far as it can go, uh this one. I just fiddled with that cable adjuster.

Let me show you so this is the actuator i'm talking about your parking brake actuator, make sure it's back this way as far as it can on both sides, so left side right side. If it's not you're going to have to loosen up where your cable adjuster goes, which somebody had this one cranked all the way in down to here. So if you, a lot of people, think like this is how you adjust your parking brake. It's not.

This is merely to take the slack out of the cable, that's it so i've sprayed and prayed and got it back all the way off. We'll make our adjustments then we'll take the slack out of the cable and it'll be perfect. So now we can see our wheel, spins, nice and easy now. B-A-E warned we're going to start turning our star wheel here and we're going to crank her right out, and this is going to be noisy because once these shoes hit these rotors, which have a lot of rust on them, they're going to make some noise.

So don't be too alarmed it's gon na take a while here, we'll just keep on cranking. I got it. One click at a time so we're starting to get some resistance there, as you can hear um, but i don't really feel any drag at this point. So i'm gon na keep going if it wasn't a ding dong.

I would have threaded this out the majority of the way. When i had the wheel off there, we go she locked right up tight, not really nope. I thought it was thought we had it. We got to get to that rust.

We're probably going to adjust these a couple times because we're going to drive it and burnish them in a little bit. Aka smoke the rust off it. Okay right there they're super tight, so we're gon na back them back off a couple clicks: okay, there we go now it spins, nice and free. We'll do the same thing on the other side.

Now that both of those are adjusted proper. We need to take the slack out of the cable, so i'm just going to clip my vice grips on here very gingerly. You don't have to crush it oops. Let them hold i'm going to use this just because i've got it out.

We want to pull the slack out of it, but we don't want to pull the actuators in the back. We don't want to tighten this so much it actuates them beautiful. So, to be honest with you folks, i think i'm going to leave it where it's at uh the pedal is uh. You know halfway between quarter and half somewhere right around there before it engage, you know, gets real stiff and engages appears to hold it there under a little bit of torque and frankly, i don't want to over adjust them.

Let's say we get it right up to snuff 100, perfect uh. The fact of the matter is this is never going to get used. It's a complete waste of money um because nobody uses their parking brake on that, except for myself and like one other guy. So the problem would be is, if you adjust them up proper, a hundred percent, they never get used and the next guy that wants to do brake, rotors uh, can't because he can't get them off and yeah yeah and with that being said, we'll leave it at That i do have to take the wheels back off.

That's why there's only two wheel, nuts holding on um because he's getting the new tires. Well, these are going on the front. New ones are going on the back. So if you're wondering why this looks like that, that's why uh anyways, hopefully you learned how to change your wheel, studs i'll see if i can find that stud installer put a link down below or a stud installer that one's from mac tools had it a while It works pretty good a lot of friction to overcome, though so you have to lube it um.

I think, if you didn't, it would destroy either the wheel, stud or the tool. Probably the stud would be my assumption, so just move it up, put something on it. Uh and that'll get you far in life a lot of different ways. Anyhow, why don't you guys head down to that comment section the questions, the comments, the concerns, the socials, the instinct, the facebook and, of course, the youtube click.

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