Messing With Mechanics | How To Replace Brake Pads & Drop Link On A Transit Van
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Today were stepping away from the usual wiring and doing a bit of maintenance on the smithdery machine!
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No problem matey 👌🏼
I started in the motor trade in 1969 Sean and I would say those two jobs have never changed since then,unlike most of other jobs on vehicles,apart from the wear indicator of course,back then it was the metal to metal sound that was the wear indicator 😂 another good video
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The caliper pin is known as a slide pin (I think..or at least it is on a CBR rear caliper!) and the rubber bit is a boot. A bit of silicone grease on those will keep them supple and prolong life. Caliper bolts with the thread locking compound definitely need a torque wrench. If you are passing J16 on the M6 give me a shout, you can borrow one of mine.
Your not far at all are ya, appreciate that mate 👌🏼
Electricians, (me included) tells people you shouldn't do your own electrical work to save money. It's dangerous only qualified electricians should do the electrics on your house. Also electricians (me included) fix their own van/car to save money because mechanics are too expensive.
We'll never get the irony of that.
Welcome back Sean. Hope you've a few videos lined up for us.
Hahaha I know where your coming from, but most of the time I’d say give anything a go if your confident enough, we all learn somehow 😬 thanks for watching mate 💪🏻
I’m glad I’m not got only one with a van bag that’s a state 😂
Used to love doing maintenance on my motors & early vans. Enjoyed the tinkering and fixing bits as well and general maintenance but sadly these days too busy to do it so end up paying through the nose for the garage to do it!🤦🏻♂️😂
May also have been the ceased pin on the calliper I had to get out as I’d gone too far and it was an absolute bastard 😂😂😂
It’s not often something goes easy on a van is it. Usually all goes sweet except that 1 little thing that makes you think about just buying a whole new van instead 😂
Not too shabby, I’m Dad & I’m Son, D&J Projects👍
👌🏼 not too shabby indeed
You are mechanical electrical cable smith.. good video well done,
Thank you mate 👏🏼 wasn’t sure anyone would bother to watch this because it’s not electrical related, but I figured I would upload it anyway
We no longer use copper grease on braking systems as the copper fragments within it interfere with ABS. Most automotive factors stock brake grease now from various brands.
Never had much luck with the Moog brand (a division of the once mighty Federal Mogul) stick with the main brands like Lemforder, Valeo, Febi Bilstein etc.
I presume you bled the brakes after winding back the pistons? There will be air trapped in the caliper giving you poor pedal feel and increased chance of brake fade.
When tightening the anti-roll drop link nuts you should still counter hold the bolts as spinning the ball joint in its socket will lead to premature wear of the socket.
At least no impact gun so top marks for that.
Only thing missing is the torque wrench, believe it or not every nut & bolt has a torque spec with many fixings being torque to yield requiring their replacement every time they are undone.
Never knew that about the copper grease, and as for Moog, I know nothing about the brands for car stuff I just got whatever one they gave me in the shop tbh. I did bleed the brakes and tighten the drop link with the Allen key still, but for torque, I know they all have a rating but I don’t have a torque wrench so that’s just a guess 😂
I hear from Glen (that rewire I passed on to you in Salford) was happy with the job, you must be a dab hand with a brush, dustpan and vacuum 😉) tried a few times to call you and thank you but you must have lost yer phone😁.
He told me he was happy with the job and.. you tidied up after you !!!
😂 yep he was really happy! I told him he wouldn’t have been if he’d seen it the day before he returned 👀 but yea we always clean up the WHOLE thing as best we can.
I tried to look for your phone number to ask about it too which is strange.
@@Cablesmith having done rewires in my younger years I did warn him about all the chasing and potential dust and what to expect, dust can settle for days.many are totally oblivious to the amount of work and difficult cable routing, tiled, laminate floors, extensions with limited acces, fitted kitchens etc, so he was well prepared.
I knew somebody once who was in shock when they saw what was involved.. thought the cables were already there in the structure to connect to !!!
I will, of course recommend you if I hear of anymore work.. not easy to recommend someone you have never met or seen their work.. RUclips worked in your favour there, for sure.
@@oyleyhands1332 appreciate it mate, and nice meeting you 👌🏼
D&J Projects mug, Sean.
The front bar you changed is the drop link, the antiroll bar is behind it in the video, painted blue
@@CurtainFlapper ahh fair enough
It's funny your doing exactly the same as me, apart from I've had to change the carriers, calipers, disks and pads as nobody had maintenance my van at the rear before.
Looks like your disks are not far out on video... you got an MOT coming up?
You are right though very straight forward. - PS Electrical or not Id still watch your videos mate
Yep, i noticed on your Instagram the other day you were doing yours, I was gonna tag you when I uploaded this but forgot til you’ve just mentioned it 😂
MOT passed the day after this video was filmed 💪🏻😂
@@Cablesmith 🤣🤣👍👍 perfect I'll be running mine through one as soon as all this work is done. Die hard trying.. just wait until the auto sparks see my 12v wago CORY MAC style on my interior lights 🤣 video coming soon
@@Jonbuildz hahaha looking forward to it
Great to be able to do own basic maintenance 👌.
Don't need to do anything re bleeding mate, next time just take cap off reservoir and use the wind back tool uve got 👍
Thanks mate 👌🏼
another top tip
once you've put the rear pads on you should use the foot brake to push the pistons out to locking positions before you start to apply the handbrake
decades of doing this has taught me that and saved countless hours od headaches as to why the handbrake isn't as good
Yep I did have to mess about to get the hand brake back to normal 😂
@@Cablesmith and when you do the job again in another 50,000 miles you won't need to 🤣
@@therealdojj this is true 👌🏼 I’ll definitely remember that forever now so thanks mate 👏🏼
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Got your hands filthy already taking the wheel off then put gloves on 😂😂
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Was cool to see something different, but always going to miss electrical work. I already seen loads of comments from you on D&J Projects channel in the past, and I think you was the one who finally had the sense to ask why Antony gets called Aznee? Are you subscribed to the professional strugglers channel? Was recommended them by D&J and glad I did, if your into mechanics, you'll love it!
yep I’ve been watching d&j since pretty much the beginning, and your right I did ask but never got an answer 😂
I’ve heard the struggler mentioned but I’ve not seen his channel yet, I’ll check it out 👌🏼
@@Cablesmith They read your question out on one of the Q&A's haha not sure if it was the holiday/Stevie's birthday or more recently, but wasn't long ago. Can't remember the answer, possibly Aznee was a charcter in a film Stevie liked?
@@phillipgwynne6580 oh really! I must have missed that. Maybe it was on Instagram?
Fitted those Moogs on a 208 last year- failed after one year...🙄🙄
Ffs 😩 don’t say that 😂
Is that cup from d and j projects, good video mate
Spot on 👌🏼😂