How do I use a Brake Spring Plier

[mindgame]

Hi gang,

I bought a brake spring plier, reading on the thingy, makes install/removal of brake springs easier..

ok... Tried to use it to remove the rear parking brake pads... Anyone had pics as to how to use these dang pliers?

Thanks!!

 

[joecrotch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knsms8JeLqU

Never used them on disc brakes I didnt think you needed them just a set of channel locks to compress the piston.

 

[mindgame]

Okays... I found a better picture of how to use that curly end.. Finally!!

http://www.howstuffinmycarworks.com/Ford_F-250_brake_shoes_1.html

 

[joecrotch]

Do you have drum brakes?

 

[mindgame]

The 04 is both.. Externally it is disk brakes, internally under the rotor, the parking brakes are drums...
yeah.. The rotors goes right over them..

 

[99 Expy]

Do you have drum brakes?

I am pretty sure mostly all rear disc brake equipped vehicles have drum brakes for parking brakes. Since the rotors get smaller when they cool down, if you set the brake, the rotor later gets smaller, and the brakes do not have as much grip. With drum brakes, the drum cools down and actually gets tighter on the pads.

Glad you figured the brakes out, that tool is nice when you know how to use it. Last time I changed drum brakes, I did it with a screwdriver in the cold and dark lol. Makes it much more difficult.

 

[KWT2000]

the type of springs on the e brake setup, take a different kind of tool. not the plier's you got..

i will post a pic up later today it looks like a screwdriver... but a small pair of visegrips will work great also

 

[KWT2000]

Here is the proper tool for working on smaller drum brakes, you just hook it over the spring and tighten it up enough so it don't slip and hook or unhook the spring..