general service of brakes

[TriumphAnt]

Hello,

I'm more a biker than a driver if I'm honest but I've use of 2 (what is the plural for a Yaris, Yarii?) different Yarii.

One is my Mums 2007 (automatic), the brakes on that are really good however when I then use my younger brothers 2003 Yaris (manual) the brakes work in more of a suggestive capacity. On the 2007 Yaris, you hit the brakes to hard and you'll get whiplash & feel like you hit a brick wall, on the 2003 I tend to end up thinking "%$#^ I really should have stared braking earlier!!!"

Now I imagine that an element of this is that the brakes on the 2007 a little newer and also better designed, also the owner of the 2007 gets it serviced by a dealer garage every year. The 2003 however gets it's MOT (compulsory annual Ministry of Transport check to make sure of road worthiness) done every year and stuff is only done (by the cheapest place that can be found) to it if it fails the MOT.

So as my Brother is away for a month I have total use of the 2003 Yaris as though it were my very own and I thought I should take the opportunity to take a look at the brakes and at the very least give them a clean.

I've never even had to change a tyre on a car but on a bike I've changed alternators, had the brakes apart, swapped engines, put simply there have been times it's looked more like I owned an airfix kit than a bike.

When it comes to brakes on my bike though the caliper is pretty much on display, 2 bolts off and it's yours, no messing about with the wheel or even a need to jack it up you just slide it off the disc. So before I set to taking apart someone elses car I though I should check there was nothing different I should be aware of.

In terms of tools I've got a 1/2" torque wrench, a range of metric sockets up to 19mm, hex keys from 1mm-6mm, ACF50 (like WD40 only MUCH better), brake/clutch cleaner & the emergency jack from the boot of the car.

I'm guessing it's just a case of:

get the jack under the frame, jack it up so the tyre just clears the ground

undo the 4 bolts, slip off tyre (from this point I'm guessing it will be almost like on the bike)

I assume there are going to be a couple of bolts holding on the caliper so undo those and slide the caliper off the disc

remove pins that hold in pads, remove pads inspect and clean. check and clean caliper pistons.

With the caliper off I imagine the disc will now come off so again remove, inspect and clean that.

reverse process to put back together (if anyone knows the torque settings for each bolt that would also be handy) and then repeat on other 3 wheels.

If I've got any of that wrong please feel free to ridicule me, although if you can tell me the right way of doing it at the same time that would be great

Thanks
Ant