Interchange the brake pads on your CR-V.
You can modify the CD brake pads on your 2003 Honda CR-V exactly from your homely garage, saving future and mode. The CR-V is equipped with CD brake pads on the front of the vehicle. It accounts for almost 75 percent of the vehicle's braking aptitude. The pads wear down over age and must be replaced to establish Correct braking. Fix aside at least an age or extended to abundant the work. Buy all the parts and tools you committal from your limited Car parts retailer.
Instructions
1. Tighten the lug nuts to 80-foot pounds of torque by using the ratchet and socket.13. Pop up the hood and replace the brake fluid.
2. Loosen the lug nuts a half turn on the front left turn using a lug follower wrench. Hoist the front left side of the vehicle with a jack and lower it onto a jack stand.
3. Lay circle chocks in front of Everyone rear turn. Lift the front of the vehicle using the jack and position the jack stands underneath the frame, adjoining to Everyone front circle. Lower the vehicle onto the stands.
4. Remove the lug nuts on the left shove. Remove the rotate and allot it aside.
5. Receipts off the bolt on the lower caliper using a ratchet and socket. Rotate the front caliper down and gone from the brake pads.
6. Levy the caliper piston compression item in the housing of the caliper. Situate the caliper piston in an entering course by tightening the coerce screw. Do this until the caliper piston is situated snugly inside the caliper bore.
7. Pull off the two brake pads from the caliper support plates using your hands and discard.
8. Smear brake pad grease on the outside pad plates and on the tabs on the outside of the new brake pads. Put the new brake pads into the caliper support plates.
9. Reassemble everything in reverse. Tighten the lower caliper bolts to 25-foot pounds by using the torque wrench.
10. Put the wheel back on and tighten the lug nuts.
11. Repeat steps 4 through 9 for the other side.
12. Raise the vehicle with the jack and remove the jack stands. Lower the vehicle to the ground. Pop the hood and fix the skillful cylinder. You can good buy away where it is located by consulting the vehicle's owner's handbook. Remove the lid and remove half of the brake fluid by using a suction baster. Discard the fluid.
Pump the brake pedal to seat the pads until it goes halfway down to the floor. Top off the brake fluid one more time and put the cap back into place. Lower the hood. Remove the wheel chocks and take the car for a test drive.
