the challenging part of the front is the removal and replacement of the front spindle with the Machined Drilled holes for the AMG Calipers. Once that is installed, the brakes are straight foward like the rears... hear we go....
Here is the Spindles:

With the car on jacks, take off front wheels

Using a 18mm socket, remove the caliper bolts and set caliper on the side

Remove torx screw on rotors, and remove rotors

Using a flat head screwdriver and hammer, remove dust caps at hub to expose the spindle nut

Using a 5mm allen wrench, loosen the allen head screw and undo the nut by hand

Slowly (while holding the front hub bearing ) shimmy the hub towards you and put aside, i took this opportunity to repack the bearings with new grease seals and grease

Remove the three torx screws holding the dust sheild, remove the dust sheild

Using pliers, squeeze the metal band that is on the spindle arm

Using 7mm allen wrench, remove the bolt holding the ABS sensor /speed sensor

This is what you should have

Now the fun part, undoing the ball joints, i use a ball joint seperator on the top 1st, using a 17mm socket to take the nut off

Once it popped, i reassemled it and hand tight the nut so as to support the spindle arm to allow me to undo the bottom three, starting with the steering arm

Now the lower control arms (there are two), once popped, undo the top and it's out

With the space, i took this opportunity to undo the brake line using a 14mm wrench, then installed it on the front AMG caliper and set on the side

Install the new spindle, tighten all 4 ball joints

Cut the dust sheild to allow the larger caliper to mount, once done, use the three torx screw and remount the dust sheild

 

Remount the abs/speed sensor, rub some grease on the spindle, slide the hub on the spindle, hand tight the nut, tighten the allen bolt, pound the dust cap on, put brake grease on the hub, mount the new rotor with the torx screw

Using a 21mm socket, mount the AMG caliper

Last but not least, now bleed your brakes free of bubbles, there are 6 nipples, the rears require 8mm wrench, the fronts 11mm wrench, i use a motive presure bleeder, works awesome

Once you are done bleeding, replug in the sbc plug and
Now your done.
Front before:

After:

Rear before:

After:

I hope this helps those that are thinking of doing it themselfs, i just save me 700 - 1000 in labor cost here in hawaii and now it's time to rest..

 

Great writeup. Where can I get the power bleeder? Kragen?

Are you planning on doing the rears?

 

thanks,
i went on the motive bleeder website, and fortunately there was a local distributor here in hawaii. also the rears are done and on a different post.

 

Good job!

 

Great post! Any pics of your ride?

 

+1 very nice post

 

great write up

 

dacollector,

What do you mean sbc plug?

 

6hift,
the SBC plug is the plug in the left hand corner of the engine bay. if you look at my first post on "E55 brakes on E500 (rears first)" i posted a picture there as that is the 1st. step before any brake job, and that is to dissable the SBC unit from presurizing the brake system durring dissasembly.
here is the picture of the SBC plug, unpluged. you unplug it by pulling up on the top tab:

 

hi 6hift, i did the rears 1st. it's on another thread, the rears are easy and is a direct bolt on.. i didn't want to post the whole thing as it would be a very long post..

 

Very nice. Looks beautiful.

 

Nice write up Thanks.

 

Excellent write up
E55 brakes are what I need to do next.
Looks sexii!
how much did everything run you if its not a secret?

 

contact steve for pricing. tools i spent $35 for the ball joint seperator

 

Now that is what I call a REAL mod!! Excellent write-up/pics!! Thank you very much and enjoy the car!!

 

+1 Nice write up! did you have to disconnect the batt as well?

 

great writeup! I enjoyed it, thanks!

 

thanks for the comments.. vader SS no, no battery disconnect on this mod..

 

Bump...

Does anyone have part #'s for the front AMG front spindles? TIA

 

Thanks Konigstiger!
E55 steering knuckle (spindle): left 2113306620, right 2113306720 (for comparison shopping, parts.com $292.10 each).

 

Hi silly question here. Do the e55/63 brakes come with one brake pad sensor or two? My oem brakes have two. The used set of amg brakes I bought only have one. Anyone?

 

e63 sensors = 1 front/right, 1 rear/right both part #1715400617.

 

how hard to do the rear ? is it just plug n play ? you gotta have the big rotor for the rear too right ?

Andy

 

hey andy, i did the rears 1st . before i did the fronts as i wanted to do the easiest one , then spend time on the hardest part of this mod. i have posted the same step by step for the rears like the fronts.
link:
https://mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w...ars-first.html