so you got yourself like the second or third generation Accords but anyway these Accords that have what is referred to as captive front rotors and you need to replace those rotors some service establishment tells you some ungodly number as far as replacement of those rotors well now you're going to find out why because it takes a little bit more than it normally does just to replace rotors on a car on these particular cords and some other cars with what's referred to as kept it for rotors in addition to that on the left side of this car it also has a bad wheel bearing so if you have wheel bearing issues on cars that you also have rotor issues with no time like the present because it'll pretty much be in your hand so let's get started shall we we will first begin by raising the vehicle and putting it on jack stands well I think it's obvious that the next thing we do is take the tires off now we want to get the caliper off I usually only take out the lower bolt and pin then I clean it off next you'll find this in the replacing disc brake video of compressing the piston pinching off the line and putting a hose on the bleeder valve this way this really helps prevent damage to the master cylinder particularly on these older Honda's they do have issues with that so I've just gotten in the habit of doing this unfortunately during the process of trying to bleed this caliper the bleeder valve wasn't working too well so I'm going to take the opportunity to show you how I clean them up right here just take them to a wire wheel and clean the inner part of it until it's nice and shiny nice and shiny and reinstall it sometimes there's a little bit of rust or something in there that needs to be cleaned out but I think you'll see that after I finished cleaning it up and getting it out of there that as soon as I got to compress the piston moves very nicely now very happy with this result so now that we have the piston compressed we can close the bleeder and remove the hose and remove our clamp and get started on the rest of this whole thing clean this pin if you ever wonder which pan goes where you'll see on this one there's a G on the caliper there's a G the opposite side has an L I don't like to let calipers just hang by the brake hose so I usually hang them up with some kind of bungee cord or something like that this one I tied to the upper control arm as you can see here if you're having trouble getting cotter pins out don't sweat it just cut the ends off and use your socket and run the nut right over the top of them you can always knock out the remnants with a punch later on removing the bolt for the lower ball joint and as usual hit what it goes through to try and knock it loose I guess I didn't see that it was already loose there and needed to hit it some more once that's loose you want to go for the outer tie rod end you can remove that once again hit what it goes through then the upper ball joint once again hit what it goes through and once you've got all these things loose to the axle nut get that out then you can remove the entire assembly and take it over to the bench here's where your day can go bad in a hurry but with a little patience and sometimes brute strength you can get through it first thing to do is remove the four fasteners that hold the bearing assembly into the knuckle it's a 12 point bolt head and then I take these hardened bolts and run them into place that are actually much longer than the old bolts and I tighten them down into the back of the bearing assembly here with my impact after that you can do one of two things well what I'm doing here is I'm actually hitting around the outside of the bearing assembly to try to knock it loose from the hub but here's the one of the two things you can either use an air hammer like I'm using here or you can use a regular hammer and beat on it all day I prefer the air hammer method whenever it's possible but you may be here a while here I got lucky I got really lucky in fact this came out much easier than they normally do but I'll take those whenever I get them remove the bolts and move on to the next phase of the operation this is my friendly angled die grinder now he's going to help us with a little cleaning and preparation I use this to clean the bore on the inside of the knuckle where the bearing assembly lives and this helps get rid of all that rust and any burrs or anything that might have been created then just a little bit of axle grease as a thin coating on the inside of this one to prevent rust but to to ease and assembly now let's go to the rotor bearing assembly itself you remove the four fasteners around the outside and maybe just a little tap with a hammer get the old rotor off the bearing assembly and toss it take the old bearing assembly where it went into the knuckle and I like to use a wire wheel and just clean up around the outside of it so that it's nice and shiny like you see here ooh pretty now for more cleaning in preparation you can I'd like to clean the bosses where the brake rotor actually comes in contact with the hub assembly and also add a little bit of grease to this area one to prevent rust and to just to make it go together much nicer then around the outside of the bearing clean the cosmoline off of the new rotor on both sides I believe I just show one side here drop it on top of the bearing assembly it should fit on there some cheap rotors you have a tough time with this you may have to do a little grinding then reinstall the four fasteners that hold the hub to the rotor assembly itself let the da-duh install the fasteners I run them down with my 3/8 impact there we go and I use gravity to help me here now the bearing has a an offset make sure you get the offset lined up with the knuckle assembly if you don't might be difficult now when I run these fasteners down I run them down just like you do a wheel I bounce back and forth and work it I don't run one all the way down I actually work it back and forth until they're down into their respective homes and and happy then we take it back over to the vehicle and you might have to wrestle with it a little bit put the axle in drop the lower ball joint in and stick it back up in there and look at that pretty rotor it's gorgeous okay that's how I do it install everything in reverse order also see the disc brake installation for how I install the front pads that should finish up the job for you I just don't believe I have enough time in this particular video to cover that I hope this video is helpful as always leave me comments video or text below or you can visit me at Air Cargo comm I would love to hear from you so send me your questions comments whatever I'll see what I can do to help you in the meantime stay dirty