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To remove the front rotors, we simply removed the two bolts on the back of each caliper, slid the caliper off, and then banged the rotor off with a rubber mallet.
To remove the rear rotors, we also had to remove the bolt securing the rotor to the hub. Unfortunately, high mileage cars will sometimes have bolts that are nearly impossible to get out without stripping them.
If you look closely at the bolt, you may be able to see where we ground a slit for a larger flat head screwdriver to dig into the Phillips head screw, but this didn’t work either. So we drilled a small hole into the screw and used a bolt extractor, which did the trick.
If you don’t want your brakes to squeal, daubing a bit of grease on the portions of the backing plates that come into contact with the pistons, as we’ve done here on our BuyBrakes.com pads, will do the trick. After looking at this picture, however, it appears our eyes are too used to working on 4-piston calipers (and the MPV’s are not). It doesn’t matter—this still did the trick. Brakes are quiet.
Because the new pads will be considerably thicker than the used ones we removed, they won’t fit between the piston and rotor. So, you’ll have to carefully push the piston all the way back into the caliper.
