More New Rotors

One day this week it warmed up to 70 degrees! Let's get to work!
Last week in the snow it was down to 35 in the garage!

Not long ago we replaced the cracked front rotors, so we went ahead and replaced the rear rotors also. The rears were not cracked, but it made sense to me to have all four corners of the car match. 

Parking brake inside the rear wheels. 

One PRO TIP to pass along: When you are removing rear rotors, you just might want to release the parking brake so that they will come off! OK, not just "might want to," let's say you MUST release the parking brake!

You know how the doctor will write on your body parts just to make sure they operate on the right (or left) side? I did that with the rotors just to be safe! Here's the new one on the left!

Compared to the previous photo, this shows the two set screws inserted to hold the rotor in place. 

Brake caliper with the two brake pads inserted. 

Circled in black are the two caliper bolts, they are Torx 55. Very easy to work on these.
Inside the yellowish boxes are the brake pistons. The two on the right are a little easier to see than the two on the left. The pistons push on the brake pads, into the rotors, to make the wheel stop spinning.  

Here's all the tools I used on this brake rotor job. The new to me cart made it easy to just wheel all those loose tools over to the other side of the car too. Maybe someone like McGyver could do auto work with just a toothpick, but not me.