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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 1-September 07 From: Canyon Lake, Texas! Member No.: 8,065 Region Association: None ![]() |
The pelican article assumes a lot. One picture and vague directions such as "remove both bolts", with no mention of their location, size, etc.
I've never messed with the brakes before so I don't know what all I'm looking at. Since the hardline nut is a perfect circle now (wow...) i had to cut it in half, now I'm trying to remove the caliper from the car (rear drivers) and don't know the order or which bolts to loosen. I have taken the parking brake cable off, and removed the 90angle little clips, but not sure where to go from there... can someone post some pics of the bolts the hold the halves together and maybe their size? any other trips/tricks/pitfalls to avoid will be greatly appreciated as well! brake bleeding job has turned into a "replace every 40yr old part of the brake system" job... sigh. had to go buy some flare wrenches too, never heard of them before this! |
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 1-September 07 From: Canyon Lake, Texas! Member No.: 8,065 Region Association: None ![]() |
k, just got the 19mm bolts out, got the caliper off by "tapping" it with hammer till it slid off. removed the remaining hard line half that was connected to the rubber one going to front of car.
got the new caliper on, hard line re-attached and have a question about torque. do the 2 big 19mm nuts need to be torqued to a certain spec? seems like it'd be hard to get a torque wrench in there. ps: Flarre wrenches might be the single-most valuable tool i have bought yet! I may use these exclusively on everything now. I just don't trust crescents, and the non-flares like to round 40yr old nuts with little disregard for the guy wrenching (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) so, only thing keeping me from "finishing" that wheel is the torque thing. |
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