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05-25-2009, 01:49 AM
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Help ASAP!! Sooooo.... Pretty much to sum it up my passenger side rear caliper literally FELL OFF of the abutment bracket/rotor as I was going down the road tonight
.... To make it easy for me in the morning I was wondering if anyone could tell me a part# or what bolt size/thread I need for the calipers to attach to the abutment brackets so I can get this **** fixed (i just need those two bolts). Sorry Barnat, my nice caliper paint job needs to be touched up now
I have had the calipers on for about three months with no issues... I took the car in to get an alignment and balance and two days later, my caliper falls off.. wtf.
.... To make it easy for me in the morning I was wondering if anyone could tell me a part# or what bolt size/thread I need for the calipers to attach to the abutment brackets so I can get this **** fixed (i just need those two bolts). Sorry Barnat, my nice caliper paint job needs to be touched up nowI have had the calipers on for about three months with no issues... I took the car in to get an alignment and balance and two days later, my caliper falls off.. wtf.
05-25-2009, 02:28 AM
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I had the same thing happen to me, I was going 80mph and the front one fell off and wedged in the wheel spoke. Talk about a fun time. I can tell you from experience that you can pretty much only get those bolts from the dealer, any you get at a parts store with the same length and thread pitch will be a lower grade and probably wont last long.
05-25-2009, 09:57 AM
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Thanks... *I need to know what the torque specs are for those bolts if anyone can tell me.* I bought some hardened bolts from ACE that should work fine but my work wont let me off today to fix it... Damn them... Do you think I should throw some lock tight on those bolts when I put them in? I do not want this to happen again.
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05-27-2009, 12:24 AM
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Well, I got the caliper back on and everything seemed ok and worked fine. Scraping wasnt as bad as I thought. I Put loctite on all 4 calipers just cuz. Hopefully I can get them off when I need to next time.
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05-27-2009, 02:58 AM
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Glad to hear everything was not that bad. 
You don't have to use loctite on the bolts, and I believe its around 20-30 ft lbs of tq. Just a good snug and thats it.
~ Craig
You don't have to use loctite on the bolts, and I believe its around 20-30 ft lbs of tq. Just a good snug and thats it.
~ Craig
