How to Change Front Brake Pads on a 2020 Toyota Corolla

[Music] [Applause] hey what's up YouTube Dan the fix it man got another quick video here for you I'm going to show you how to change your front brake pads on a 2020 Toyota Corolla now this is really easy to do and in this case we're only going to change the pads not the rotors now the first thing that I like to do is push this caliper piston back inside the caliper to make room for the thicker new pad material and the easiest way to do that is to wedge a little screwdriver or a small pry bar in here and pull that towards you which will push that caliper piston in pushing the brake fluid backwards up through this line up into our master cylinder before we do that it's important that you pop the hood take a look at the master cylinder to make sure that it's not going to overflow and make a big mess we just need to make sure that there's enough room in there so let's go do that all right so our master cylinder is right over here and this one happens to be really clean and the fluid is also very clean you can see it's more than halfway down so we have plenty of room to push that caliper piston back in and allow that fluid to come up a little bit now a lot of people ask me if you need to take off the lid or take the cap off of the master cylinder reservoir and you really don't any air that's trapped in there will still be able to escape this lid is actually somewhat vented and the less we can expose that brake fluid to air the better because the brake fluid is hygroscopic meaning that it absorbs moisture even the moisture in the air and that can cause it to degrade and go bad so looks like we're good to go back down and push the caliper piston back in as an alternative method you can also take the rubber cap off of this BL bleeder screw and just crack that open a little bit as you push the caliper piston back in and that will expel the old fluid out through the bleeder screw and that's not a bad way to cycle through your brake fluid now if you do that method you are opening the hydraulic system and so you may need to bleed the brakes when you're done just to ensure that there's no air or anything that got in there the way that I'm doing it since we're not opening the hydraulic system it's not required to bleed the brakes once you're done so I'm just going to grab this little pry bar here it's a dominator by meu just wedge it in through here and pull that towards you you can I also have the wheel turned to the left so that it's easier to access you can see now we've got a lot of room there I'm going to just shift the prry bar in between the inside pad and the rotor and that usually will allow us to push it the rest of the way in like so you can see now we have a lot of room in there a lot of excess room so we'll be able to slide those pads in no problem so now we can loosen and remove these two slide pin bolts those are a 14 mm now if you attempt to loosen this and the whole slide pin just spins you may need to use a 17 mm open-end wrench to hold that steady while you loosen and remove these caliper slide pin bolts in our case they're spinning out just fine so we'll just take these out and we'll set those aside all right now we can take the caliper off now just remember you don't want to let this dangle by the brake line we're going to just hook this on this little caliper hook right here and hang it up here on the the coil spring now you can see our boot here is stuck out even though our piston on the inside is pressed in we'll get this cleaned up but we also need to push this boot back in you see it kind of has these little pleat or folds sometimes these are a little stubborn to go back in and you can use a little hook tool or a little pick just to pull back just a little bit on that rubber boot and that will let the air that's inside there Escape as you push that in you just kind of use your thumbs or fingertips to kind of press press that and fold that in and you see it wants to bulge back out we just need to pull back just a little bit and let any air that's trapped inside their escape see as I pull that back I can hear the air escape and then just use your fingertips to massage that the rest of the way in like so all right that took a minute but we got that boot pushed all the way back in if you try to put the caliper back on without pushing that boot back in it can catch or snag and sometimes tear and then that can cause a leak later at your caliper I'm also going to go ahead and clean this off just be careful around the boot that you don't damage that and we'll just let that hang out of the way now this little shim is coming off of this one here but that's all right just pry this out same with the inside now our new brake pants came with replacement Clips here or new hardware so we're going to pop these all off now if we were also changing the rotors that would be the time to take this bracket off right here which is these two 17 mm bolts you'll need to take those off and then that will allow you to pull this rotor right off sometimes these rotors get stuck you can give them a whack with a little Sledgehammer or we also have these threaded holes right here those are M8 by 1.25 if you get a couple bolts that size you can turn those in and that will act as like a little Force screw and that'll pull this rotor off but in our case we're not going to change out the rotors the owner just asked me for a quick pad slap as they call it just uh throw some new pads on it now we're also going to pull out and clean these slide pins but first I want to clean this surface here before we put on the new hardware I'm just going to use a wire brush on a drill just make sure you wear some safety glasses if you're going to do this you can see that that surface is all nice and clean now now it's not a bad idea to put a little bit of this caliper grease underneath where that Hardware goes just to prevent any buildup from happening now that's really more of a protectant than a lubricant just prevents any major corrosion or buildup underneath these clips but we can go ahead and put these lips in now there we go just make sure that those are all fully seated and make sure you don't get any grease on the surface of the rotor if you do just wipe it off with some brake cleaner now we're going to pull out the slide pins and clean and regrease them just going to do one at a time just pull back on this rubber boot pull out the slide pin wipe that off I usually put it in one more time just to try to get any additional of the old grease out and this is the caliper grease I'm using here just give it a nice little thin coating here you don't want to use too much just pull it until the boot snaps back up and then squeeze the boot that will burp out any stuck air just make sure that it's not pushing out if it's pushing out then you have too much grease or some trapped air but that feels pretty good A lot better than it did feel so we'll do the same thing just pull back on the boot pull out the slide pin this one's stuck there we go you can see this one has a little rubber ring or a little rubber bushing on the end that was kind of stuck sometimes these will swell as they get old you can either replace that I've even done see how it has these little Cuts in it I've even done additional relief Cuts with a razor blade to make sure that that doesn't get stuck but I think this one's still still going to work out just fine let's just try to get more of that grease out kind of swollen a little bit but I think this one will be all right now if these are really stuck bad you can clean out those openings uh have some little brushes for that with some brake clean and whatnot but in our case they really not stuck too bad we're just really wiping out the old grease and putting on some new grease and that should be fine for what we need just make sure that you use the right kind of Grease if you use regular grease it'll it'll get sticky and gummy and get stuck this is specific for brake calipers and slide pins slide that one back in boot popped up and that's spinning much nicer than it was now take a look our brake pads are actually labeled outer and inner these are from import direct picked them up at O'Reilly we just need to put our little spring on here that just Clips onto the end and then this is ready to go in seems to be the easiest to put it in at a little bit of an angle and then I'm just going to push down on that spring at the top make sure we can get that lined up and then same thing with our inner this little clip goes on this end here and this is ready to go in same thing at a little bit of an angle and that looks good now last thing I'm going to put on here is this silicone ceramic extreme by Permatex just a little thin layer on the outside of the pads now this does have a nice rubberized Chim so this is not entirely necessary but this just seems to help keep things quiet and helps eliminate some of the vibrations that cause some of that noise and squeaks all right now we can grab the brake caliper we're going to take our caliper Hook off and remember we've already cleaned this out and pushed that piston back in So this should be very easy to line up and just set it over the pads and then we can put our caliper slide pin bolts back in this is a gear wrench 85062 torque wrench I'm going to use to tighten these to 25 ft-lbs now if you did take off the caliper bracket bolts those are 79 ft-lb now these slide pins spin while you're trying to torque that down you can go ahead and just hold that steady with that 17 mm open end wrench and you should be good to go and that's it you're done now it's very important before you head out that you need to step on the brake pedal several times which will push the caliper piston back out pricing those pads up against the rotor where they need to be when you do this however don't press the brake pedal all the way to the floor that can damage the seals in your master cylinder just press it down about halfway several times until it feels firm and then don't forget to double check the brake fluid level in your master cylinder as well make sure that that's all topped off where it needs to be I hope you like the video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you don't mind that does help me out I'll get a link in the description to some of the parts and tools using the video as well thanks so much for watching and good luck