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More in: How-To, Brakes  Picture with the new bearings/seals installed. Prior to new installment, you will need to pack the inner and outer bearings. NOTE: THIS IS A VERY CRUCIAL STEP AND THE BEARINGS MUST BE PACKED CORRECTLY. IF NOT, BRAKE FAILURE CAN OCCUR.
• To pack bearings, use rubber gloves and grab the bearing with your two index fingers. Take a glob of grease and repeatedly scrape the side of your hand with the edge of the bearing, packing grease into it. Grease will be properly packed when it squirts out the other side of the bearing. Do this process around the whole bearing and make sure there are NO air bubbles/gaps in between. • Packing bearings should take you about 10 minutes per bearing to insure proper filling.  After pressing the outer bearing inside the rotor with seal, slide the rotor back onto the spindle. Slide the inner bearing inside the rotor and re-install the hex nut, cover & cotter pin. Then pop the dust cover back on.
 Re-install the caliper bracket and slide in your new pads.
 Pop off the stock pads from the stock caliper. Then take a small piece of wood with a C-clamp and VERY SLOWLY compress the caliper back until it’s flush. This will bleed pressure through the line back up to the reservoir and it’s very important that it’s done slowly.
 Install the new performance pads and clip them back onto the caliper.
 Then install the caliper assembly and douse the front and backsides of the rotor with brake cleaner making sure there are no oil, dirt, etc marks.
Rear Installation First, block your tires and release the parking brake.  Stock rear rotor. Remove the stock caliper and pads.
 With the caliper removed, wiggle the stock rotor until it pops off. We had to carefully tap the rotor with a hammer near the studs to loosen the rotor.
 Install the new rear rotor. No bearings here!
 Pop off the old pads and repeat the bleeding technique. Make sure that you bleed it evenly and SLOWLY. Then re-install your new performance pads and stock caliper onto the rotor. Douse the rotor with brake cleaner again, making sure there are no oil, dirt, etc marks.
Now pump your brakes to generate pressure back into the lines and you’re done!  Overall picture of the rotor.
To break in your new brakes, drive easy for the first 50 miles and try to avoid braking aggressively.
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