On my 1997 jeep grand cherokee laredo rear brake pad warning light still on after pads have been changed

where is light exactly?
in the cluster?

Yourself or a repair shop?

Not much difference from one rear disc
system to the next.

Yes--- you have to turn in the parking brake
ratchet by rotating the caliper piston to get
new pads on

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hi, your jeep has disk brakes front and rear. You can use ceramic pads its more a personal preference. Good luck

more like the master brake cylinder which is a tandem type cylinder

its very easy. Pull tires off after putting vehicle on jack stands. There are only 2 bolts that holt the caliper on the rotor. Once you remove those bolts, the caliper will slide off. the break pad removal can be a little tricky, as you must depress a button with a screw driver in order to get he pads out. I recommend having two people to do this part. Once the old pads are out, us either a c-clamp or a pair of chanel locks to push the piston back in. Once the piston is back in, insert the new pads, place the caliper back on the rotor and reinsert the two bolts. I dont know the specs of the bolts, but be sure not to tighten them too much as you can damage parts to the brake system. It literally took me 20 minutes to do my brakes.

faulty brake switch

The noise and the light may or may not be related. The noise may be the wear indicator on the brake pads touching the rotor (they are supposed to do that when brakes are worn) The abs light triggers off a wheel on the axle end. If you have a bad joint on the axle, it could be noisy and causing the wheel to not have the proper clearance to the abs sensor. You really need to take the wheel and brake assembly off and carefully inspect everything. Make sure all abs sensor wires are undamaged...it doesn't have to be at the same wheel that's chirping.

firstly make sure that the rotor and pad are the same with the former ones and secondly bleed the brake system to remove air fromthe syetem lastly check your wheel balancing. I hope this will help

I just searched google and looked at JC Whitney. They have brake parts and ship internationally. (don't know cost) But it's worth looking into!