Oh today's, the day for the chevrolet, the song i just made up it's a gmc. I don't know what year it is, but i do know this: hey there, viewers and welcome back to the south main auto channel, we're inside the 2012 chevrolet or gmc uh. The customer states he tried to do his own brake jobs, because if he can do it - and i can do it and everybody can do it, but evidently he could not get the rotors off. So this pedal feels a little spongy um.

So he said with a lot of other explicits that he's done with it and he wants sma to figure out why in a thunder he could not get his rotors off and apparently he beat the living heck out of him. We'll call it - and i see over here on the driver's seat - your passenger seat. Rather we got some car quest premium, pads the golds and we got some rotors and some brake fluid, so we're not going to drive around because i don't know how. Well, he put it together, but we'll go have a little look-see is what's happening.

I talked to mrs oh uh. Evidently, the customer did all the rest of stuff and, as we can see through here brand new pads, uh brand new calipers, no hardware, he left all the hardware off it kind of weird uh. He just wants the rotors replaced, and that is it. So that's what we're gon na i'm just hoping we don't take it apart and find out.

He just forgot to take the screw out. Wouldn't that be something oh, my gosh there's still a torx bit in it. Folks, if that baby is in there, we'll know, we'll know why what happened happened but hopefully, hopefully that's not the case. Uh, i'm gon na go ahead and just i'm just gon na peel the whole caliper bracket, all one chunk uh.

Maybe he left all the hardware and stuff off it for a reason. I don't really know, but that's what we're gon na do. I know there's a lot of folks that have a theory uh, especially around here in the rust belt, that if you leave the hardware off, you have less of a tendency for the pad to seize. So perhaps that's why it was done like that.

I do new uh. We got to back this off a little typically the rotors on these chevrolets. They don't uh. They don't come off too hard.

Generally speaking, so there's that yeah pads are definitely super loose in there. Let's set that up there for right now. Oh, she got some marks on the front of her. Let me tell you that's what frustration looks like folks.

That's all from the hammer. Uh expect it a little worse, maybe the other side's a little better for us. I almost feel bad. Almost oh we're out of never seas or not never see this fluid filling waiting for a few cases to show up.

I don't know how that happened. I just went and looked it's all m.i.a, so i called to order some cases and they're all out. So i won't have any until tomorrow and i'm waiting for my fifth, i just ran out of my 55 gallon drum too jeez, just keeping track of inventory around this place, so we're gon na paint her up like the tin man. This way, the next time this feller does his rotors he'll, be like the suckers will come right off, providing i take the screw out of them, but i'm thinking that it can't be that simple, i'm betting, that when we go on the other side, it's going to Be that's going to be the bad one.

That's my thought. Maybe if not boy, i don't know what to tell this young man. I was telling them they were stuck man you're right them. Babies were stuck okay.

Well, let's see here we go. Stick that baby back up there and put the torx bit back in it. We will give it a snug-a-dugga that is a little bit lighter than a nugget nugget. This is snug-a-dugga.

That's like that! Quarter-Inch dry, she's, kind of weak snug-a-dugga. All the hardware was inside the vehicle. I can't get a hold of this fella. I just can't bring myself to put it back together like this, so i think what we'll do if i'm wrong i'll take care of it for him.

I think we're just going to do it proper if i'm wrong i'll, take it apart and pull this hardware back out, but i did notice like the kelp or bracket bolts were barely tightened so and those there's oh, i mean, i know thor is pretty powerful, but You can tell when stuff is barely tight, so i think what we'll do there? There probably was a lot of frustration going on at this point. I think we're going to do it the right way. You know how things go when you get frustrated you're, just pissed off, and things aren't going right and you're going in and tell the old lady like it's your problem now old lady, then she screams at you and you scream at her next thing. You know she's, like yeah with the oldest kid he's, not even yours, and all that because you couldn't get the rotor off.

I don't know if that's how it goes down irl, but that's a potential situation or scene that can happen so we're gon na make sure these caliper pins are lubed up. Why did i just loop that then grab it right down there, don't know it's too uh. It's too into our story. I think these have some lube on them anyways, but we'll just make sure she's lubed all the way to the top.

That's going to keep that sealed up good, keep it the pin from getting all rusty and crusty. They don't put a lot on them from the factory, so we'll do the same thing on this one. This is orange grease where the heck do we get this stuff, silicone extreme ceramic extreme? It's called, i don't know how it ended up in my shop, not real sure, that's what we're using as today's flavor, the orange it doesn't seem as gooey. I think i've used it before and didn't 100 care for it.

Ah doggy ding dong. I should have wiped that brake dust off what a mess yeah close enough close enough folks looks like i have some kind of painted coating on it. Anyways kind of maybe some kind of zinc or galvanized type paint coating. There we go now.

This has anti-drag clips. So to speak, and it also has these little wings on it here that are flicked up. So when we stick the pads on it's going to want to push them off, but those little wingy doodads will keep it from flying off. You'll see you'll, see what i'm saying so we're going to give it a click.

You'll hear it click ready, click click take my word for it, it clicks and it keeps it from falling off. Okay makes sense, it does in my mind, same thing over here there you listen, you'll, hear it, click that doesn't really never mind, you'll, feel it you'll feel it. That's that, let's sew it together, you know they all lock tight uh we're going to put a little octane on the kelvin which you can use, never seas or nothing or whatever you want to do, but whatever you do make sure you follow service info and use That procedure, we're just going to stick this up here for right now, get them started, we'll get them torqued down we'll get our right should have wiped their rotor off first, but i'm sure there's a fair amount of cross contamination going on already i'm going to grab A torque spec and a torque wrench and torque these to factory specs, now make sure you don't have a pigtail in that little guy. And what we'll do is we'll get this one started.

Then we'll just swing her down that keeps you from getting all the schmutz. A little schmutzy uh all over everything, so we'll just go like that. We flipped it down and put the bottom bolt in um. Well, i have to go, get the torque, specs and and all that stuff and get this torqued down here properly and i will go see if the other side is a little more dramatic than this side.

So i got the wheel off this side. Folks and uh. We'll take to pull the caliper off this. One still has the screw in.

It looks a little buggered up, though um we'll take in yeah wow good thing. We checked this side uh. This caliper is falling right off. Well, it's got a loose bolt must not have torqued the spec.

Obviously, i won't bore you with bracket removal unless the bolts are loose and we'll laugh and laugh and laugh whether or not um we'll get these little guys off and we'll see what the deal is over here. This this screw head's kind of messed up. So i'm not real sure that one's not gon na go she's just gon na break our torx bit plan b, all right so first things. First, i think what we'll try and do is we'll try to just massage around the head of the bolt a little bit with air hammer see if the jiggly will get her loose music to my ears baby and then we'll try to do this see if this Works, it comes just like that.

Okay, what a stupid video when he said he was beating the hell out of these things. I thought you know what man it's gon na be a great video boy. Was i wrong? Well folks, we're gon na leave it to that. I'm not going to bore you with another brake job on a chevrolet honestly, i might even throw this video into trash.

It is kind of comical that the boat was forgotten. However, we've all done stupid things right right. I've done it, you've done it. If you haven't done a stupid thing, you probably haven't done anything at all, then at that point, so uh, let's reminisce down in that comment section tell me what kind of silly thing you've done where you've had the oh son of a mother moment once you figure Out why things weren't going your way as perhaps this fella might have? When i tell me, you know, forgot one little tiny torx bit screw in there and that's where the all the frustration came from so leave that story in the comment section.

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