starchland

What is the workings of the parking brake, piston combo?

And did you use permatex ceramic lube ?

Travelling Onion Salesman

A hammer, a screwdriver (to scrape off any rust) and some pliers did the job

Also, great post OP, very well explained

B serious

Remove the clip holding the cable to the bracket first.

Car Analogy

Excellent writeup! So detailed, yet concise. You have a real talent for this!

I recently did my rears too. For those not replacing calipers, you will need to screw the caliper piston back into the caliper to make room for the thicker rotors. You can rent the tool to do this from Autozone. You can try and use a mondo flat blade screwdriver, but it may keep slipping and gouge things up. Best to get the tool. Much faster this way too.

I added some brake lube to the interface where pad slides on the stainless steel area of caliper. A little goes a long way. You will also want to polish those ss plates up with some steel wool or fine scuff pad, if you are reusing your old calipers. Also, clean and lube your caliper slider pin bolts! A lot goes a long way here.

Also, I added antiseize to the hub rotor interface, so new rotor never rusts onto hub. Make future removals easier.

Since you changed hoses, the part where you remove the hose from hardline, often the hardline nut can be frozen to the line. So in trying to remove it you end up destroying the hardline. Not good. So whenever loosing a hardline connection, go slow, and make sure the nut spins freely on the line. If not, add pb blaster, and keep working it back and forth carefully until it frees. Patience and time here will be much better than the time and effort involved in changing a hardline!

s2000Junky

Holy rust Batman! Did you find this car at the bottom of the sea? Looks like your suspension is growing part of the great barrier reef