How to Replace Rear Brakes 2002-18 Nissan Altima
Created on: 2013-12-16
Check out this video to learn how to replace the front brakes on your 02-06 Nissan Altima. Doing it yourself is a great way to save money!
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step 1 :Remove the wheel
- Loosen your lug nuts with a 19 mm socket and breaker bar
- Raise and secure the vehicle.
- Remove the lug nuts the rest of the way and set the wheel aside.
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step 2 :Inspect and remove the brakes
- Observe the thickness of your brake pads.
- Inspect your rotors for excessive wear or deep gouges.
- Loosen the caliper bolt with a 14 mm socket and ratchet.
- Use a flat blade screwdriver to compress the caliper pistons some and remove the caliper.
- Unbolt the 19 mm caliper bracket bolts.
- Remove the rotor and pop the plug out of the rotor.
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step 3 :Install the new disc brakes
- Hit the emergency brake with brake cleaner.
- Clean your new rotor with brake cleaner (mineral spirits would work just as well)
- Install the brake rotor onto the vehicle and replace the little access plug.
- Mount the caliper bracket and torque the 19 mm bolts to 85-90 ft lbs
- Use a C-clamp to compress the caliper.
- Install the brake pads, dabbing a bit of anti-seize grease on the edges to get it in.
- Push the caliper into place and bolt it down with your 14 mm socket.
- Torque the 14 mm bolt to 25 ft lbs.
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step 4 :Mount the wheel
- Put the wheel on the vehicle.
- Hand-tighten the lug nuts.
- Lower the vehicle.
- Torque your lug nuts in a star pattern to 100 ft lbs.
Tools needed
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12mm Socket
A Piece of Pipe (for leverage)
Torque Wrench
14mm Socket
Jack Stands
19mm Socket
Brake Parts Cleaner
21mm Socket
8mm Socket
Anti-Seize Grease
Ratchet
Floor Jack
1/2 Inch Breaker Bar
Brought to you by 1AAuto.com. Your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. Hi, I'm Don from 1A Auto. I hope this how to video help you out. The next time you need a part for your vehicle think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks. In this video we show you how to replace the rear brakes on this 2003 Nissan Altima, pretty much the same for any 2002 to 2006. We show you the right hand, the left hand is the same procedure. We do always recommend you replace your brakes in pairs.
The items you'll need for this repair are new brakes pads and rotor kit from 1A Auto.com; 8, 12, 14, 19 and 21 mm sockets with a ratchet. A piece of pipe for some extra leverage. Brake cleaner, brake grease, brake fluid, jack and jack stands and a torque wrench. Raise and remove your wheel and tire. If you don't have the benefit of air tools, loosen the lug nuts with the vehicle on the ground, then raise and support it and remove the lug nuts the rest of the way. Inspect your brakes. You can look through and see the brake pads, and there's not much left to the brake pads on this vehicle and the rotor is in rough shape, pretty corroded with some large gouges. To just replace the pads you can see we took that top bolt out, but we're going to take the whole rotor off because it's actually frozen on this car.
Its two 19 mm bolts and you can see we use a 19 mm socket with a ratchet and a pipe for some extra leverage. You'll need to do this if you want to replace the rotor anyways, because you need to take the whole caliper bracket off in order to get the rotor off. Once the bolts are removed, using a flat blade screwdriver pry that off. Then you can set that aside. Your old rotor pulls right off. You want to use a flat blade screwdriver and pop this plug out of the rotor. Spray down your emergency brake assembly with some brake cleaner. Now using brake cleaner wipe down your new rotor. Then you put some brake grease on either end of your brake pads. You can see here's your adjuster for your other brake and that hole in the rotor is so you can reach the adjuster with a screwdriver. Turn it until you feel the parking brake drag on the inside a little bit; once adjusted then you can replace the plug. As we said before, our caliper was in bad shape. We ended up having to replace it, but you can ad lib along with us. You can put your caliper back in place.
Take the pads out of your caliper, and then put the caliper back in place. Put the two 19 mm bolts in place and then tighten them up to 85 - 90 foot pounds. Now you want to remove this 14 mm bolt right here. Once the bolt's removed pull your caliper back and then push, your brake pad slides into place. Once the sides are in place you can put your brake pads back in and push your caliper back into place and replace that 14mm bolt. Fast forward as we tighten that bolt back up to 25 foot pounds. - to your brake lines. Now we're going to fast forward here as Don replaces the wheel. You want to put the lug nuts on preliminarily. Lower the vehicle and tighten them the rest of the way. Now torque the lug nuts to a 100 foot pounds in a crossing pattern. After doing any repair on the brakes, before taking it out onto the road it's important to do a couple of things first. First you want to pump the brakes until the brake pedal firms up. Then you want to do a stop test from five miles per hour and then 10 miles per hour.
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