Change The Front Brake Pads on a Honda S2000
Changing your front brake pads in your S2000 is a pretty straight-forward job. Unlike the rears compressing the piston is easy, making this job quicker than the rears.
If you're looking to replace the rears as well then check out my other article - Change the Rear Brake Pads on a Honda S2000
- 19mm Open Wrench
- 12mm Wrench
- 12mm Socket & Socket Wrench (Optional)
- 10mm Wrench
- Disc brake spreader tool (Or a C-Clamp)
- Tire Iron
- Jack, Jack stands and wheel chocks
- Paper towels
- Clear hose and container to catch excess brake fluid
- Ramps (Optional)
- Flathead screwdriver to pry pads loose (Optional)
- New Front Brake pads (Honda Part #45022-SVB-A02)
- Brake grease (Comes with the OEM Brake pads, you may need it if you order different pads)
- Brake cleaner (optional)
Symptoms
If you begin hearing a squeal when braking coming from the front of the car then you'll want to change your brake pads immediately.
If you are hearing a metallic rubbing sound coming from the front that could mean your brake pads are worn completely - that's bad news (not to mention dangerous)! Don't let your car get to that point if you can help it.
Loosen wheel lugs
With the car on the ground go ahead and loosen the wheel lugs on both sides. You don't need to remove these - just break them free.
Jack up the car
Remove wheels
Gain Access to Caliper
There are two bolts you'll need to remove to remove the caliper body:
Use your 19mm open wrench to hold the bolt close to you while you use your 12mm wrench or socket wrench to loosen the bolt farther away from you.
The bolts are held in place by a rubber sleeve - remove bolts carefully so that you don't damage these.
Now you'll want to loosen the bottom bolt. Use your 19mm wrench and 12mm socket wrench to perform the same procedure.
Compress Piston
Next, you'll need to compress the piston to be able to slide the caliper back on with the larger brand new pads. Compressing the piston will drive brake fluid back through the system. To avoid that you can attach a hose the the bleed screw and let fluid exit here, which is what we have done. This will require bleeding the brakes after. (If you'd like to avoid that you can instead open the brake master cylinder, however you'll want to keep an eye that you don't overflow brake fluid from the cylinder.)
Unlike the rear piston the front piston is easy to compress. I used a brake spreader tool which makes the job easy. Place one of the old pads in front of the piston then insert the speader tool and turn to add pressure to the piston.
If you don't have a spreader tool you can use a C-Clamp to compress the piston.
Slide in new pads
Buttoning up
Wipe both pins that you removed earlier clean and apply new grease, making sure to cover the pin (I used my finger but a paper towel or gloves work as well)
Second side!
Wrap Up
Put your wheel back on and tighten lug nuts (tighten in a star pattern rather than sequentially).
Bleed Brakes
- Front brake pads - Honda Part #45022-SVB-A02
- Upper caliper pin - Honda Part #45235-S0A-003
- Lower caliper pin - Honda Part #45262-S0A-003
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