The Best Lube for Your Brakes

hey guys and welcome to another episode today in this video I'm going to be talking about 3m lubrication specifically I'm going to be talking about the 3m copper any sees and 3m silicone paste now behind me I've got my brother's Mini Cooper and it's got probably a hundred thousand kilometers on these brakes if not more and I haven't touched these things in years to prove a point now when I installed these brakes on the car I used copper a nice ease from 3m and there's silicone paste this cars been driven very hard it's been maintained but at the same time I haven't touched these brakes at all since I installed them now with that being said I've got new brakes right here but before I install them I'm going to show you how easy it actually is to take everything apart once you apply a nice amount of lubrication on it when you install it if you take the two seconds when you're installing your parts and you do it properly you're not going to be swearing when you have to take apart and replace it so I need to disassemble the entire braking assembly so I can replace it with the new stuff now with that being said I applied 3m copper a nice ease when I installed this bolt that holds the rotor on to the hub I put some on the back side of the rotor to keep it so the rotor doesn't actually fuse and corrode to the backside of the hub as well on this side over here we've got the brake caliper and we've got these little covers to protect the grease from getting in there from getting contaminated and this is going to allow the caliper to slide in and out with a hundred thousand kilometers being driven on this car this thing definitely needed to be looked at at least three times if you guys do your own work to your car I suggest taking a look at your brakes at least once every other season so what I like to do is I like to do it before winter and after winter so actually right now I'm do but in the meantime I'm going to be taking this apart so I've got to take off the one dust cap up top there and there's another one down here and then remove the slider pin once those are a movie they need to remove this little clip here now most German cars have brakes that are like this you just got to pry that out then remove this little clip from the brake and after that you should then be able to pry out the brake caliper from here and you can see that these pads rotors definitely need to be replaced look at that that just goes to show how badly worn these things are but without being said they came out very easily next up is going to be removing this bolt that's holding the rotor on to the hub now usually these things can get rusted on very well now I'm just gonna be using my Dewalt impact driver and this thing doesn't torque more than 50 foot-pounds if you use a ratchet it'll actually be a lot stronger than using this but I'm just going to be using this because it's faster now if this bolt is rusted on there good this thing really shouldn't come out even with this impact driver it won't remove it but let's see how well the 3m copper NEC is held up look at that it comes out like a dream you can even see on the bolt that we removed that there's still some 3m copper any C's on it now if we didn't have any copper any C's in between the rotor and the hub I shouldn't be able to just pull on the rotor and pull it off it should be seized on there for good look at that I just touched it and it fell off these things haven't been serviced in a while so you should be able to just pull it off wow that's a bad rotor look at the pitting on there but you see how easy came off that's the beauty of the stuff that works amazing it makes my life so much easier after I know that I installed the brakes the first time the ones have you just removed we can then install new ones like it's nothing there's not going to be any corrosion in here even after being up in north and canada cars up in Canada where I live get a beating on with salt during the winter rust does not stand a chance against this so right here on the Left I've got the old brake rotor and on the right I've got the new one now I decided to go with the same slotted stop tech rotors both front and back because they did a good job and they lasted a while you can see that there's only a partial amount of this contact area that's exposed that's actually being used for breaking on the front and even on the back this entire thing should be shiny like a functioning brick this is not really doing much you can see there's pitting on there and it doesn't really look that nice on the new one you can see that we've got a fresh new contact patch and we've got a lot more area to work with now that being said to keep these new breaks to make them as nice to remove as these ones were I'm going to be using some 3m copper a nice ease on the backside here so it's the mating surface between this with us for the backside of the brake rotor and the hub now I'm just going to be grabbing a little bit stuff you don't need that much you just need a little dab of it like that that nut and then you can either use the brush to move it around like that or you can use your finger now I'm just gonna be using my finger in this situation just spread it around until it's nicely coated and then this can be making it so the brake rotors going to come off nice and easily as soon as we need to take it off down the road say we need to do the brakes again say another hundred thousand kilometers down the road so come in here you don't really need anything thick you just need a light coating of this stuff for it to work so just coat the entire inside of here and then we'll be able to mount this on the car we're not going to have to worry down the road because this is nicely coated you can even see on here that there's still some copper a nice ease that's exposed and this is years after I did the brakes grab your new rotor slide it into place just like that and then if you have a bolt that's like this that needs to be reinserted I am going to reinsert it back into here but before I do that I'm going to clean this up remove any rust that's on there and then I'm going to apply some 3m copper a nice ease on here so it doesn't corrode to the inside of the brake so here's it before you can see it's a little dirty and we've got a little bit of rust forming on it now I'm going to be using a bench grinder to clean this thing up and you can see now how nice and clean this is now if you don't have a bench grinder if you want you can use sandpaper and it'll basically do the exact same thing now you just need a tiny dab of this stuff to work so once you have it on there when you thread this into the backside of the knuckle it's going to actually push all the AEC's where it needs to and fill in all of the threads so if you put your bolt on your socket thread it in place you can screw it in and everything is going to be nicely lubricated now if we ever need to remove this it's going to come out nice and easily because we've got copper a nice ease around there that's preventing the steel hub and the steel bolt from rusting and corroding together now to make sure that the caliper can slide in and out on this bracket freely you need to make sure that you take care of the slider pins that go in here with them remove you should then take care of any rust grease or any marring that's on the actual slider pins clean them up and then real obrah cait them so just like that bolt that we just took care of you should do the same thing to these slider pins so I'm going to be using a brass wheel on a bench grinder to take care of any dirt rust or marring on these pins if it's too bad you should replace them instead of try and take care of them and salvage them these things are expensive you could probably pick them up for a buck or two and then call it a day now that we've got them both basically imperfection free you're then going to grab your 3m silicone paste and then apply a liberal amount onto each one of the sliders so you don't need too much you just need enough that is completely covered which means that it's going to slide properly on the rubber boot now the way that I like to remember is that if you have metal on rubber you use the silicone paste if it's metal on metal you use the 3m copper a nice ease so I just pushed the piston into the caliper with a special tool this is for the rear brakes and now I need to mount the brake pads inside the caliper and onto the bracket now because the brake pads that we're mounting because they're actually made out of metal we need to mount this metal here up to this metal and to make sure that this doesn't fuse with what I told you earlier guess what kind of fluid and 3m product I'm going to be putting up here I'm going to be putting the 3m copper a nice ease on the bottom part here and top parts here on both pads so I'm going to have the one on one side right here that has the lubrication on it and the same thing for the other one so just like before you don't need much you just need a little bit on both sides so one they're a little line there and another one there so once you have it there when you put it up if you move it around it'll push it into places that needs to and it'll be good so you do the same thing for both pads the one on the outside and along the inside now then you mount the caliper over top of the brake pads the rotor and everything else back here and to make sure that the caliper will actually slide nicely on here we need to put both of those two slider pins that were lubricated with a 3m silicone paste inside of here so you can have the one up top that you need to mount in here and insert and then you're gonna have one more down here on the bottom of the caliper last but not least we have to install this little clip on the rear bracket to keep it in place now a lot of German cars have setups like this and have these little clips that hold the caliper pressed up against the brake rotor bracket and you need to install this in there and I like putting a little bit of copper a nice ease on the end of each one of these tips to make sure this steel wire doesn't seize inside the steel hole inside the caliper and by using these two products by 3m I am able to keep my brakes working for a long time now if you guys are going to be doing your own maintenance on your car make sure you take a look at your brakes every 20,000 kilometers give or take if you're doing a lot of heavy hard driving I would check them sooner than later to make sure that they're in good working condition and nothing else brakes costing you more money down the road I'm going to have links for both of these products in the description box you guys can check it out and buy some if you're interested if you guys have any questions regarding the video throw them down in the comment section below and I'd be happy to help I can guys thanks for watching I'll catch you in the next one peace nobody likes dry make sure to use all that Lube to keep everything working

Channel: milanmastracci

Views: 206,741

Rating: 4.6776071 out of 5

Keywords: milan, mastracci, canada, ontario, honda, accord, brakes, lowered, diy, automotive, volkswagen, how to, tutorial, cars, brake, caliper, wheel, engine, transmission, tsx, bc racing, tein, 3m, copper antiseize, brake lube, 3m car care, car care, dielectric grease, grease, 3m copper antiseize, anti seize

Id: 90hPEDF9PAQ

Length: 11min 23sec (683 seconds)

Published: Thu May 12 2016