I have a 99 CL 3.0

I have already replaced the front brakes and found this to be ridiculously easy especially since the pads are shimless. I just unbolted one end of the caliper, and installed the new pads.

Since the rear brakes also have the emergency brake, is the procedure the same for replacing the pads? Is there an extra step to account for the emergency brake?

 

Should be the same as the front, the ebrake cable just adds one more thing attached to the caliper.

 

Just be glad u don't have a 97

 

the only thing you have to do differently is turn the piston on the rears, it will not compress like the fronts

 

What's so bad about the 97, black?

I'm about to change my brakes and rotors. :x

 

Hub over rotor on the 97 fronts = MAJOR pain in the ass.

 

is it that bad........on 97s didnt think it was or mayb its not the correct way..lol

 

Front and rear on 97 to 99 are very easy. Nice if you have a brake bleeder and piston compressor.

Otherwise it will take about 1 hour for the rear. If the rotors have grooves then you'll need to take it to the brake shop. They will turn them smooth for $10-$15 each.

Don't forget to top off you brake fluid.

 

I just finished my rear brakes. There is a great video series over at ehow on the subject.

Anyway the only 2 gotchas I encountered were not correctly positioning the piston over the new pad so the groove lines up with the notch on the inner pad and the fact that my shitty craftsman jack does not jack my car up enough to get my jack stands underneath. So far I've only tried using the little loop of metal at the end of the gas tank in the rear. Using this I did not even get my rear wheels off the ground. I instead opted for using the trolley jack to jack up each side to get the jack stands underneath.

There has to be a better way to jack up this damn car anybody know?

1999 cl 3.0 auto trannsmission

 

There really are no good jack points on our cars, I usually use the stock jack points on the sides

 

Well, I have new pads all around, so i will not be needing to do this again for some time.

 

I replaced the brakes on my 97 right after i got the car and the fronts went very easy but the rears took me awhile because I couldn't get them to compress with a c clamp, tried and tried and nothing, then I noticed the slot and turned it with a big screw driver and it went in very easy. So the fronts took about 30 minutes and the first rear took about 3 hours but the second rear took about 45 minutes once I realized you have to turn the piston in instead of squeezing it in like the fronts

 

 

yeah i read your post before I posted it but was just telling my experience I had when changing them. Some were saying the fronts were the problem but the rears took longer than the fronts even after I figured out how to get the piston in