Habituated that the Cadillac Escalade is accepted among the high-class soccer mom collection, extremely sporadic owners doable apperceive locate and modify parts approximating the brake calipers. A trained mechanic should close this whether credible. Provided you create choose to alter your Escalade's calipers, announce everything you can approximately the brake parts anterior and build persuaded you understand what you're doing.
Instructions
Remove the Old Caliper
1. Intersect off the vehicle's potentiality for safety. Disconnect the cable from the contradiction battery terminal.
2. Void two thirds of the brake fluid from the crackerjack cylinder. Discard the ancient fluid and hold recent fluid ready for subsequent.
3. Remove the tire and rotate meeting once the vehivle is raised and steady. Speck where the wheel and wheel stud should reconnect. Secure the rotor to the hub with two wheel nuts.
4. Compress the caliper piston with a C-clamp or the equivalent. Make sure the piston bottoms in the bore.
5. Disconnect the brake hose from the caliper by removing the inlet fitting bolt. Plug the hose and holes in the caliper.
6. Take out the caliper, first by removing the mounting bolts. You should then pivot the caliper assembly up so it clears the rotor and slide it inboard off the pin sleeve.
Install the New Caliper
7. Refill the brake master cylinder with fresh fluid. Reconnect the battery cable to the negative terminal.
Attach the mounting bolts back onto the caliper. On the 15 series Escalade, tighten the guide pin bolts to 31 foot pounds. Tighten them to 80 foot pounds on the 25 series model.
9. Connect the brake hose at the caliper by installing the inlet fitting bolt. Tighten the bolt to 33 foot pounds.
10. Bleed the brake system to remove air from within. Open the bleeder valve and press down on the brake pedal.
11. Reattach the tire and wheel assembly. Install the new caliper body assembly. Holding it in the position of the old one, work the pin boot's large end into the caliper body groove, push the assembly onto the pin and move it into position.8.
