Replacing The Back Brakes on the 04 ford f 150

okay boys and girls today we're working on an 04 ford f-150 and we're doing the rear brakes um we got some tire off we've got to get this caliper moved back so uh the way i do it get you something and stick it in there and get a hold of they'll get you some leverage and pull back towards you just ever so slightly keep pressure keep pressure on it you can go here too if you can get in there just keep pressure steady pressure on it not a lot of pressure just pressure and it will start releasing the brakes it's hard to do one-handed here but it'll start releasing the brakes and just keep steady pressure on it and as you keep steady pressure on it that'll push the cylinder back which will push the fluid back up towards the front of the vehicle to the reservoir here's the smaller screwdriver you can get in here a lot of times and put pressure on it but you got to put decent pressure on there to make it go back and you see you can see here how much i have moved it so far you know from there to there is where the pad will sit and you just keep keep pressure on it and it'll keep right on moving back and they say you need these fancy caliper uh pressure tools and you know to push that puck back in you don't need none of that that's just somebody trying to sell you some garbage i mean they're nice don't get me wrong and i've got them but you don't need them you can do it this way right here i'm going to show you that okay now i'm really starting to get somewhere okay if you look right here i was way back here and now i'm way out here you can see that cylinder in there it's pushing back which is pushing the fluid back and you just see i got it i got the whole rod down in there now and now i can pull like hill you can see that brake moving that brake is all the way out now see if i can hold this show you the brake is all the way just about all the way out and you watch it there now it's all the way out now that cylinder that cylinder is pushed all the way in so now we need to take our screws off and uh i'll show you how to do that let me grab the tools okay take these bolts out these on the caliper there's the top one bottom one down here now if you look here right here there's two there's a clip and a clip over here there's one on the top there's not one on the bottom so that means that calipers got to go that way to bring this caliper out okay i'm gonna take it out anyway just so we can let me show you everything take a bottom boat all the way out okay there's the bottom boat i'll put them up there i'll always put them up there is the back shoe you see where it's wore it's just about wore all the way out that's the back shoe the front shoe is going to be a little harder to get out see i've got to hold it and do this at the same time let me uh see if i can put you somewhere i don't know ain't where i can put you basically you got to bend this tab just ever so slightly here to get that out too much but it'll work there [Music] okay see the front ones like brand new and then back when the war all the way out back was gone it basically means it's hanging here it's not being able to slide back you can see now i did put a very small dent where i did put a very small dent in the rotor right there and the way i did that was i was prying against it with a blunt object but that won't hurt nothing that's just a little tiny dent it won't hurt nothing at all now here's our new brakes right here awesome see if we can get them open so when you go to put these on this is what i was talking about you see how that's got a horseshoe and this one don't it's only got a nail so this one would go on the front here like so so we've got to watch that we're going to make sure we get a back one the same this back one this one see the back ones don't do it on this one it's got double so these these back ones can go on either side so let me get them reinstalled here i don't think i can do it talking to you on the phone i'm showing y'all on the phone nope i got it no i got to get both hands basically you get see that that's got a hole in it there and you get this started in the hole and just push it in but make sure it's to the right curvature of the caliper but let me push it in real quick and i'll be back with you okay now here's the gallop i mean here's the there's the cylinder and see how it's already gapped and it's already pushed all the way back i don't need no other tools i can just line that up there or go down on there and push it in snap it in place but these cylinders here these things where your screws get through you need to make sure ouch you need to make sure they're all the way back and they will pinch you them don't know take put your screws back in it 10 millimeter tighten it back up and you'll be good to go make sure that this hose here does not have a crimp in it if you turn it 180 you'll have a twist in it and you you get a twist in that hose you'll have all kinds of problems but [Music] put it back together you'll be ready to go i'm gonna let y'all watch me do this one in real time here it don't take that long so so do um [Music] cook so you [Music] so six minutes so once you do that the next thing you have to do or you don't have to you'd be better off if you did start truck up brakes gonna go all the way to the floor you got to pump them a few times and basically that's going to bring your caliper back up where they're pushing on them brake pads because you push them all the way out now they're back in and you're ready to go you're ready to ride clean up your mess and you're done and they charge you 89 plus to the uh pads to do that around here so just saved a hundred dollar bill and then brake pads cost me i think there's 19 so it cost me 20 bucks saved a hundred but anyway if you like the channel subscribe to it leave the comments down below and give us a thumbs up from filming it we'll catch you on the next one