2019 Toyota Highlander Front brake pads and rotors

[Zeek]

Well done. A few tips. Use a bungy cord or a wire clothes hanger to hold the calliper, attach it to the coil spring of the strut. Nothing worse than having it get bumped and it drops damaging the rubber brake line and a new brake line is not something you have handy. You can use the calliper bolt ( oops might be the bracket bolt ) in that hole on the rotor to loosen a stuck rotor ( might be best to have a bolt for that slight possibility the bolt gets stripped ). After putting on the new rotor use a lug nut to hold the rotor on a DIYer might damage the lug with a vice grip. Obviously you aren’t replacing with Toyota parts but if the old pads are the OEM ones save the shims on the back of the pads. Toyota charges over $40 ( in Canada )”for a shim kit with a few drops of lube . They may not fit on aftermarket pads but they are high quality and with a little wire brushing they work great if you use or may ever use Toyota Pads again. Put a few SMALL dabs of brake grease ( silicon type works good ) on the backs of the pads( sims) on the outside pad where the back of the pad / shim will contact the bracket on the inside pad where the pad / shim will contact the pistons. This should help prevent any harmonic “ rattles “, so you might as well do this step before buttoning everything back up. Aftermarket clips and those pad springs are almost always “ wimpy “, the originals are often stronger even after having 40, 000 miles on them. They may not work with aftermarket pads but I found there are “ cheap pads “ that don’t work as well as OEM as well as higher quality pads that cost jus, t as much or more that Toyota pads. Oh and a good inspection of the rubber boot on the brake pistons is a good idea plus after compressing the pistons check that the rubber boot hasn’t bulged out ( use a small flat blade screw driver or the not pointy part of a pick tool to push the rubber back in until it sits flush.