DIY brakes

[Threesuns1]

Oops it should have read without impact screwdriver. Thanks, fixed it.

 

[klotz50]

Update - just did the back pads and rotors at 39k miles. My pads were down to nothing - one was less than a mm away from metal. Actually couldn't find new hardware (spring and clips) anywhere so cleaned and reused what I had. Few notes:
-Electronic parking brake retractor works like a champ. On a $120,000 BMW you have to hook up a computer to retract. I love RAM has a box to click in the menu. Easey peasey.
-May be normal on trucks but both back brakes have a parking brake on them. Still plenty of room to work.
-After having a really tough time with the rotor retaining screw on the fronts - I gave these a hard bang with a socket extender and a hammer....came out easy. Make sure to do this first as the retaining screw is cheap and will easily strip.
-Rotors were super rusted on (truck gets a lot of miles and a lot of road salt and not enough washes) and it doesn't seem like RAM applies any anti seize before installing them. Popped them off by using a nut/bolt washer through the lower caliper mounting bolt hole. Hold the nut with a wrench and turn the bolt with my impact wrench and boom. Pops right off. If you do this - make sure you have a few bolts...when I went to reuse the one I used for the first rotor - the bolt snapped! video where I got the idea here:

What size torx bolt is it?

 

[klotz50]

What size torx bolt is it?

For anyone who may need to know as it was difficult to find out. T30 on a 2019 Ram