Big Blue: 2005 GMC Yukon Denali

[Jake]

Mileage: 133,300

I've never had a truly legitimate use for this large of a C-clamp before:



Did the front brakes though, and it came in awfully handy to compress the caliper pistons. Front brakes are dual-piston which I thought was neat. I'd never worked on a multiple-piston caliper before so compressing them was interesting. Compress one and the other extends more. It was frustrating until I went back and forth a few times and got them both compressed enough to slide everything back onto the rotor.

This was my first car job in the new garage - moved to Alexandria a week ago - and while the truck does fit in there for temporary work, it's... tight.



I put Performance Friction pads and new (cheap, from RockAuto) rotors on the front. Will do rears at some point. Also need to put new brake fluid in it eventually. It stops much better now, but the pedal is still spongy at times.

Old vs New:



Awwww yiss.