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Re: Home brake job almost leads to tragedy.

Interesting. I've never had that happen. How much torque did you put on them?

> So, my 2001 Ranger 4x4 needed new front brake pads, and while I > was at it, I figured I might as well take a light cut on the rotors > since they had some hard spots, were pulsing a bit, and I have > access to lathes and carbide cutting tools. > The bolts that hold each caliper mounting bracket to the spindle > were super tight, and upon removal, I noticed they were coated with > red locktight. I thought that was over kill, and simply tightening > the bolts properly would be enough to keep them from coming loose. > Anyway, after facing the rotors and putting on new, high quality pads, > the brakes worked better than when they were new, and I was pleased. > I made sure that all four caliper mounting bolts were super tight, > but I didn't bother with the locktight. > After a few weeks, I thought I noticed some rattling coming > from the front end when I hit sharp bumps, and decided I better > investigate soon. Real soon, as it turns out. While pulling up to > a stop sign, I noticed a horrifying grinding, crunching sound from > the front of my truck, and when my speed got down to about 3mph, it > jerked to a stop *hard*. WTF? Putting it in neutral, I was able to > push the truck easily, but put it in gear and try to roll with light > braking, and it wouldn't budge. > Come to find out, three of the caliper mounting bolts were loose, and > one lower bolt was *gone*. The bottom of the caliper lifted and jammed > against the inside of the wheel, locking it up. I just can't believe those > bolts came loose, because I really torqued them down tightly, but they > sure did. Apparently, the locktight was there for good reason... > Henry > > -- > >
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Larry Smith
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60ft-lbs is likely not enough. On my mustang the spec was like 120 ft-lbs.
Reply to
Brent P

I just read this again... did you remove the bolts that hold the caliper MOUNTING BRACKET to the SPINDLE? Why? Those shouldn't need to come off for a routine brake job, just the slider pin bolts (or retainer bolts, depending on caliper type) that hold the CALIPER to the CALIPER MOUNTING BRACKET. I can easily see why the bracket-to-spindle bolts would be loc-tited, they are normally ONLY removed for heavy front-end work like rplacing ball joints (and often not even then).

Reply to
Steve

congratulations Dan you are probably the most pompous self-righteous person to answer a request for help that I have read in a long time. and your right there is nothing in the charter of this newsgroup, but you might try to be helpful to everybody not just the people you deem deserving of help. I'm sure that before you became a SUPER GENIOUS somebody must have helped you out even if you didn't deserve the help.

Reply to
MbFlash

Depends. I've seen brake set ups where the bracket has to come off to remove the rotor or the bracket and the caliper were cast as a single piece. Replacing pads on each is still easy though.

Reply to
Brent P

...except that I wasn't answering a "request for help". I was responding to an account of a lazy dumbass who, let us not forget, only avoided killing someone by sheer luck.

If you don't like the way I post, you're free not to read my posts. Nobody forces you.

DS

Reply to
Daniel J Stern

I didn't say they were removed for pad replacement, but

*ROTOR* replacement in some designs. This is the sort of caliper design I am refering to:

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The 'cage' portion is bolted to the mounting bracket or is part of the mounting bracket and bolted to the spindle. The caliper portion is removed or sometimes just rotated for pad changes, but the 'cage' must be removed to get the rotor off.

I dunno what the ranger has, I was just giving him the benefit of the doubt regarding that.

Reply to
Brent P

They need to come off to remove the rotors.

Reply to
Henry H. Hansteen

Geez, are you guys forgetting *me*?

-- C.R. Krieger (Been there; insulted that)

Reply to
C.R. Krieger

Only for his first post. The rest of 'em worked him up to the decade award.

--Vic

Reply to
Victor Smith

Blah blah, whatever. Y'all act as if someone's forcing you to read my posts. If you don't like 'em, don't read 'em.

DS

Reply to
Daniel J. Stern

Hey Dan, it's all part of the mix. You posts 'em, I reads 'em.

--Vic

Reply to
Victor Smith

Fair enough.

Reply to
Steve

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-Sam

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Sam Tosi (lovin' yo momma)

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