How to Replace Front Brakes on Honda Civic (10th Gen) & Similar Honda Models

hey welcome back to Rob's garage woodworking today I'm going to show you how to do the front brakes on your Honda Civic now I have the 2017 Civic which is the 10th generation but a lot of the civics the front brakes are all very very similar so you can end the CRVs and actually most Honda products the brakes are all very very similar so you just have to change torque specs depending on which model you have so I like to have a workshop manual this is a Haynes workshop manual all right that's good reference I bought my parts this time CARQUEST and for the premium pads and the premium rotors I got I spent two hundred and nine dollars a mat includes brake cleaner which will also need brake cleaner so some of the other things that you need I use a nice ease compound pretty much on everything this is ultra disc brake caliper lube so use those on the calipers on a couple of different spots torque wrenches one set at twenty-five one set at 80 you'll need those don't necessarily need a braking bar but a half-inch braking bar and then a three-eighths inch drive I used impact driver not required but if you have one it'll speed you're taking wheels off four inch 400 or more inch C clamp I use the mini sledge for taking parts off I'll show you that I also have a small wire brush you know I find these are really handy I also used an impact driver and I used another Phillips Pitt so this is a the biggest Phillips bit you can get and I use just a regular Phillips you'll see me use that alright and then we needed a 19 mil socket a 17 Millett and a 12 mil socket and that's it thing that you need to do the front brakes or your car a couple of jacks a couple of jack stands would be handy you can do one side at a time I like to do both sides sorta at the same time and if you get yourself lost you can always refer to the other side so step one step one I'm gonna chalk the wheels I use some old leftover bricks so your car doesn't roll back and forth if you don't have an impact gun use a braking bar on a nineteen mil bult to just start to loosen these so you're just gonna want to just give it a little bit of a turn just you know say half a rotation one rotation just to make sure that they're all loose so that you can take them off after because when they're really tight you won't be able to take them off once the car is in the air now when you jack up your car there's this flange here it's a reinforced flange that's your Jack point so you want to make sure that your jack is right there hey on that flange so that's where I put my jack right there and I just slide it over so this tooth is on the side of it and that's supported in two places Jack it up until your wheels are off the ground by an inch or two then you want to take some axle stands and find a nice solid part of the frame to put these under if you have an impact on the compressor you don't have to pre loosen these you just take them off remember so yeah alright so after you take off the front wheel we're gonna use little wd-40 or release all or something like that and we're gonna spray around here around the hub because that's really tight on the hub and then around all the wheel studs okay I'm gonna spray around that because they're really tight there and then on the Honda's they always have that screw the screw that holds your rotor on during the assembly process so we're gonna give a little shot of release all to all those spaces all the way around here and then that one for sure even before we take the caliper off we're going to compress the caliper piston and it's easier to do that here then you can take off your caliper easier so we're just going to use a seat clamp and this one is a four inch C clamp so you'll need at least a four inch make sure that it's on the pads and then you'll see the control you'll see the whole thing move okay just compress it a little bit you don't have to use a lot of pressure so first we're gonna take off the caliper slide bolts so em off and that is a 12 mil so I just make put that on give it a little shot with your fist basically it'll loosen it off nicely take those in now you can take this whole thing off just slide it off and you can actually set it back down over by your tie rod end and you can see the brake pads now the brake pads have these Springs here so you just kind of squeeze the springs a little bit with your fingers just like this just compress them and then just pop them out we're gonna reuse these so hold onto those and your brake pads you can just slide them out slide them and there's your brake pad see I actually have lots of wear laughs but I've already committed to doing this so I've already bought my part so I'm just gonna do it I'm just gonna switch them we've got about 50 percent of pad we're still and I'm at a hundred thousand kilometers on this car which is very impressive so I thought well they would need them but I don't not yet anyway so take those off now there should be shims on the back of these depending on which kind of brake pads that you bought you might have to reuse these shims that are on the pads already set those aside all right so now we're going to remove the caliper mounting bracket and that uses that you'll need a 17 mil socket and a braking bar or a big ratchet helps these are put on at about 80 foot pounds so that's it so the bigger the bar the easier this is okay once those are loose they should come out pretty easily there you go and then here's your caliper mount and this has these little clips on it or the brake pads to slide back and forth in because this whole assembly moves so the pads will be able to move and this whole assembly moves back and forth to Center itself over the disk now we're going to remove the desk because when we replace your pads we're gonna have to replace the disc too so now we have to remove this screw so it's a Philips head screw and I'm going to put on my safety glasses and I'm going to use a long Philips bit and a hammer and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put my Philips good in here and I'm gonna hammer this just to loosen the screw okay [Music] then I'm gonna use my impact gun on a verse and I'm gonna push heavy on to that this is a number three so the biggest Phillips head bit that you can get so push in hard note there we go yeah so that's really the key to removing this is to hammer it and give it a bunch of good hard shots watch your fingers and make sure that you use some wd-40 or something beforehand okay and if you can't get this out you can actually just drill it out because it serves no purpose off to the cars built now when they're manufacturing it it's to hold it on while they're manufacturing that's the only purpose for this so now I have to take the rotors off and the rotors will be on really tighten so since we're going to be replacing the rotors we're gonna top them a bunch with a hammer so once again wear your safety glasses just so that we can remove them there we go you'll see it pop and then you can take it out cuz they're just rusted on right everything's rusted on okay so inside it rusts around the hub and then it rusts around all these wheel studs okay once that's off you can either get these turned which I never bothered to do because it's almost the same price just to get new ones so I'm just gonna get new ones and I'm gonna scrap these now get our new rotors they come individually wrapped and they're covered in oil this one's like completely sealed so the cover to oil so we have to get the oil off of it so we use disc brake cleaner for that so with the disc brake cleaner we just spray it all over give it a good wash off here flip it over to the other side and then we'll wipe it off show you some shop towels just give it a good wipe down get all the surfaces okay it just gets the oil off yeah before we put the new one on I'm just gonna use a small wire brush and I'm gonna try to knock off especially around this area at the hub and try to knock all the rest and crap off of that and go all the way around it just clean that up and then I'm gonna go over the threads yeah get all those try to get them relatively clean okay then only these use a nice ease compound it's called a nice ease compound I'm gonna put a little bit of that all the way around here and that's gonna help with the rest so we can get these off the next time and I'm gonna put a little bit and where the screw is that holds the hub on I'll put a little bit there and put a little bit on each one of these threads not a lot just a little just so that they don't rust on so if you're on the side of the road and you have to take your tire off you'll be able to do that okay then because my car is still under warranty and stuff at the dealer I'm gonna reuse this screw even though you don't have to you so when I put the the rotor on I you know put the screw in but once again you don't have to do this so line it up the screw is slide it in and put a little bit more on the screws I really want to make sure it comes in okay I'm just gonna straighten that out and install it yeah in all the way now we're gonna put on our new pads before we do that we're gonna clean off the caliper holder and in here you have where the sliders are you're just gonna clean those off not wire brush again okay now with your new brake pads you should get some grease and what I did was I cut a corner out and what I'm gonna do is put a little grease here let's put a little grease on each one of these so I'm gonna push all the grease down to the edge here so I can squeeze it out it'd be hard to see but basically I'm just putting it on doesn't have to be perfect you can spread it later and I'm just gonna use a nail I'm gonna spread it round with a nail gets on all your surfaces turn it around just a nice coat so it slides around all right all right so this just slides down here and that fits in like that you take our two bolts a little bit of anti-seize on them just not very much just to touch just a little touch line those up hey now these ones I'm just gonna tighten them up a little bit my hand here it's on all right so your torque wrench out 80 foot-pounds hear the click give it a couple of clicks there we go nice and tight it's a big torque wrench a so they pull out these so we're gonna pull the rubber boot down pull these out and these are your caliper slide pins and I have disc brake and caliper lube so it's like a high temperature grease so I'm gonna put some of that on this yeah put a bunch on that because it's important for your brakes these parts are all moving so it's important that they slide around so just spread it around pop it back in slide it all the way in and then reset your boot you just have to kind of push it over top and once it's set it'll be over that little edge that little lip let's pull the other one off I'll be back see this one's tight there we go so once again a little bit of lube on that and over the whole pin with it all right pin back in set the boot sometimes the boots routine just keep working at it until that's it we'll okay so here's our pads I got these from CARQUEST this time so these pads have the shims on them so I'll have to worry about that so the pad with the Squealer that goes on the inside and it's on kind of a round right so you match that round up with you your disc and basically put one edge in there line this one up and it should slide in sometimes they're a little tricky sometimes yeah let's try the top first first your pot first so what we have to do here is just make sure that this piston is pushed back far enough so we will take our caliper our C clamp put our C clamp in here I'll try to even this up and get it centered as much as possible we're just gonna push this back not quite not quite until it's flush but sort of close you okay so I'm also going to take a little bit of this leave just a tiny a little bit put it around the edge that caliper that piston a little tiny bit around the piston all right so before we put the springs on let's measure this make sure it fits it's over top that's good yeah set that back up there put our springs in so grab one at a time so put one here hold that with one hand with this one over here it's gonna want to push these pads apart so make sure that are in all the way spring with the pad at the top take the bottom one put that one in make sure it's in the right way slide that one over push that all the way down okay see how they're pointing towards you set each other here now grab your caliper yeah move it down and try to slide it over top and that'll hold everything in place push these pins in and slide it in these have like this little washer and it can be turned around this is the proper position so the flat goes up against here and the rounded part is on the outside same at the bottom we have our bolts that go into the caliper slides and we're gonna just put a tiny bit any C's compound on it screw that in a bit auntie seats compound just to touch all right so that's in so your Springs are in your pads are in they're in the right position squealers on the back they follow the contour of the break everything fits together properly and then we're going to torque our caliper slide bolts now these we're going to tighten them up a little bit by hand first then so these are set for 25 foot-pounds so I use your torque wrench again give it a couple of clicks that's in good and tight oh also to make this easily accessible turn the wheel this way right when you do the other side turn the wheel towards you so that the caliper is out more it gives you more space to work so you got to remember our pattern right so start a little bit on the bottom oops wrong just give it a stir skip one go to the next one alright give this one a little more of a shot same up this one so make sure you remove your axle stand both of them drop the car lower it down so these are also 80 foot pounds so make sure that it's light torque them in a star pattern so I tried to make this video very thorough so you could see all the little steps see all the parts as clearly as possible I know it's it's difficult to do you almost need a cameraman and it'd be better if the car was up on a hoist for sure but anyway since I don't have a cameraman and I don't have a hoist yet well this'll have to do anyway thanks for watching good luck on your repair Cheers