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  1. ravis
    Here is one more picture with new pads installed: A couple of other things. I used a $125 jack that I had bought from Costco for this job. It worked beautifully. I used the jack points in front of the rear wheels to lift the car (this lifts the front too) and then placed jack stands under the front jack points behind the front wheels. You will notice from the picture below that I used hockey pucks to protect the jack points. Generally, I place hockey pucks on jack stands too. Once again I want to thank Loren and several others who helped me do finish this job! Best regards, - Ravi
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    Continuing from my previous post: I had to replace one of the front brake wear sensors. Each brake pad has a brake wear sensor hole in it. Here is the location of the brake wear sensor: Following picture show brake wear sensor wholes in pads: I used old pads and 16" water pump (channel lock pliers) pliers to spread the calipers. However, I'm planning to buy the "disc brake spreader tool" by Snap-on. It sells for about $52 and make the job of spreading calipers really easy. By the way, after I had spread the calipers, I found that pads wouldn't pull out, since they were glued to the pad vibration damper and the damper was sticking to the pistons. I used a 9" long box cutter/paper knife bought from Office Max to pry the brake pad from the damper. The paper knife was long and narrow and sufficiently blunt to not damage anything. At the same time, it was sharp enough to pry out the pad from the glue. After that I pushed in new brake pads. Per Porsche recommendation, I should have used a new pad vibration damper. But I had not ordered it yet, therefore, I used the old one. However, I used a new clip, new bolt/retaining pin and a new cotter pin. I bought this brake hardware for $30 from Pelican Parts. I guess next time I'll try Sunset Imports. Here are pictures with new brake wear sensor and new pads installed: More pictures coming in next post.
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    Here are some more pictures: Here are two rods type screws that I used to easily take out the front wheels from my 996 c4. The benefit of using these is that you could slide out the wheel after removing the bolts. Basically, I remove two bolts and then screw these rods in. After that I remove rest of the bolts and slide out the wheel. Here what the brake looked like after wheels were removed. Following the advice on this forum. I turned the wheels to the left when removing front passenger side brake pads. The following picture has some instructions regarding which parts have to be removed in order to take out the pads: Here is what the brake looked like after I removed the retaining pin and the clip: Here is a picture of the brake wear sensor. My brake wear light had turned on. Clearly, the pad was worn below the hole in which the brake wear sensor sits and the it had cut through the sensor. It seems that the brake wear sensor is worn out and turns on the warning light, if pads are not removed after 65% wear. More pictures are coming in next post. Thanks!
  4. ravis
    Hi All - I followed these instructions and changed front brake pads on my 996 C4 yesterday. I'll do rear brake pads later. Just trying to be cautious, since I'm doing it first time. It took about 4 hours but most of the time was taken in the setting up my garage. I want to thank Loren and several others who have contributed. I have taken some pictures and I'm adding these here. Here is a close-up of 996 front brakes: Due to size limitations, I'll add more pictures in my next posts. Thanks!
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