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Originally Posted by make_shift
my 06 has had back brakes replaced at 35000mi, now I notice the rotors are kind of glazed over, i want to clean pads like honda does in a b service, does anybody know what stuff I need to do this job, I can take brake pads off, what do I do to the rotors (if anything) and the pads, just use a cleaner on them?
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You don't clean brake pads. You don't clean brake discs.
The most I would ever put on either is brake cleaner, but it's unnecessary unless you get some brake grease on them.
If you brake discs are glazed, then have them resurfaced on a brake lathe. Problem is, you don't really want to do that because then the pads begin to wear unevenly.
If you're going to clean brake components, take the caliper off each corner to clean it thoroughly. You can leave it on (the part which the brake hose connects to) if you don't want to bleed your brakes. Come time for my brake pad replacement (not for a while), I'm going to take them off and give them a good cleaning and lube.
Spray the crap out of the brake caliper with brake cleaner in order to remove all the brake dust and dirt accumulated on the body off the caliper. Remove the brake pad retainers (metal pieces in which the pads sit) and clean them with brake cleaner. Use a wire brush to remove any stubborn resiude.
Remove the caliper guide pins (mark which spot each came from because some must go back in the same spot) and the caliper guide pin boots. Clean the pins and boots. Be gentle on the boots. Lube the pins with silicon grease (Honda sells some...but it's about $44 per squeeze tube) and put the boots back over the pins and the pins back into the calipers.
Clean the back of the pads with brake cleaner to remove the old grease. Apply Molykote 77 brake grease to the shims and the edges of the pads where they sit in the brake pad retainers.
Put some silicon grease on the dust boot of the caliper. That's about all the cleaning and lube you can do on discs/ pads.