Changing brake pads

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    I plan on changing brake pads (stocks) to hawk hps
    should i swap the rear with the front, or is it ok to swap the front, then rear later?
     
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    Yup you can swap them as a set of fronts or rears at any time.
     
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    thanks =D
     
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    Take the extra 10 mintues and do them both, easiest brake job I've done.
     
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    the fronts would be your primary ones. the rear brakes hardly take up any braking force so they wear alot slower than the fronts. If anything, change the fronts first.
     
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    Do them both at the same time so you can bed them all in at once. (Assuming you're going to do the rears any time soon, but rears last a lot longer than fronts so you may not want/need to).

    http://www.zeckhausen.com/bedding_in_brakes.htm

    I'm still on my stock rears at 48k, but probably getting close to the end of my second set on the fronts.
     
    Vector, Aug 22, 2006
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