LX470 Front Brakes & 2 Month Impressions

[mbsheen2]

I recently purchased a 2007 LX470 and just this weekend went through a front brake job. Thanks to this forum the process went very well, even the cone washer part. I decided to try the StopTech Cryo Rotors (non-sloted/drilled) along with the 7000 Green Stuff pads from EBC brakes. Fit of both was very good and so far I'm very impressed by the quality of the StopTech Rotors. I'm hoping they last for a long time while trying to stop this tank.

After driving this truck for a couple of months I find myself liking it more and more each day. I'm coming from an Acura TL so this was a big change but I'm glad I waited to find the right one in great condition. I honestly think this must be one of the best cars ever built in terms on quality. Gas mileage is what it is, I got 18.3mpg (manually calculated) driving it back from Oregon, and now typically average between 14-15mpg in mixed driving.

Can't wait to take it up to the mountains and really see what she'll do!

2007 LX470

• mbsheen2
• Feb 26, 2018

 

[mripper]

I'm going to be doing this job on my LX soon. Did you have a good DIY guide here that you can point me to?

 

[mbsheen2]

I'm going to be doing this job on my LX soon. Did you have a good DIY guide here that you can point me to?

I actually found this YouTube video very helpful and watched it several times. I used a 4-lb dead blow hammer (from harbor freight) to get the rotor off the hub (use some penetrating spray and let it sit for a bit).



But I also found this post very helpful for some of the torque specs. It seems that the bearing pre-load is something everyone does a bit differently so I ended up using the scale method but I first tried just getting it pretty tight by hand and that actually was within spec when confirmed by the scale.

Front Bearing Replacement

I'm glad I did this because the passenger side outer bearing didn't have all that much grease around it. One other thing I found very useful was having an impact gun (I had a cordless Makita one). It made very quick work of the bolts holding the rotor to the hub, I don't have a bench vise so I'm not sure how I would have gotten those off without the impact gun.

Also I got the 54mm socket and realized when I started that it was a 3/4" socket not 1/2", I didn't have a reducer so I ended up using a pipe wrench (not ideal but it seemed to work).