Dirty Octopus

aaaand we're fully compressed slap on your new pads put back on the caliper and put in the 13mm bolts and you're almost there. Now put the wheels back on, put the car back down, tighten your lug nuts, pump the brakes a bit till they get hard, then take it around the block and beat the brakes a bit more and BOOM. you're done.

place the prongy thingys into the slots you saw earlier in the slots of the piston and get to work it should go without saying but you should be turning righty tighty to push the piston down.

here you see the piston. at this point it was fully extended. so from this point i had to compress it so i got my ratchet and extension and put on the adapter from the kit i rented. here are the two pieces assembled

and its off old pads have been removed

Once the bolts were out i took my flat head and proceeded to pry the caliper off of the rotor

Remove these two bolts from the caliper

Now of course you gotta take off your wheel

So I've been up and down the internet looking for how to change the rear brakes on my 2WD Journey. i found some helpful tips from members of this forum but nothing quite as clear as what I'd like to share with the Journey community today. So when i did my research multiple people expressed what they thought would work to push the caliper in and although a needle nose pliers along with other tools may work i feared it may damage the piston. so i looked elsewhere online then went to my local O'Reilly's to rent the fabulous tool i will list in a short while. once i got the tool the job was a breeze. So here's what will be needed to finish the job with incredible ease. NOTE: the tool costs right around $60 to rent but you get all of it back when you return it.