On the way home from work today, I noticed a severe brake grab at slow speeds. Pulled over and inspected the brakes. Quickly found a MISSING brake caliper mounting bolt. Not loose, completely missing. Gone. Empty hole. AND the top bolt was only finger tight!
Further, the wheel is all scraped up, which you can see in the picture.

HOLY CRAP!!!!

Took an extra 30 minutes to get home (20 mph max). Ordered two bolts from ford.
Just think ... 2 days after buying new wheels, I could have destroyed the truck. Now I gotta find the torque setting for those bolts.<a href="http://s1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh546/srteach/?action=view&amp;current=2012-07-05161051.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh546/srteach/2012-07-05161051.jpg" border="0" alt="right rear brake caliper, 2 days after new wheels"></a>

 

That is scary - Good thing u werent on the highway going 70 & had to hit em hard.

 

Wow, that't the 2nd one in a couple weeks on the forum.

166ft/lbs is the torque on those bolts.

 

Thanks. All 8 of them will get 166ft/lbs

 

holy crap is right, I just had both of mine off a few weeks back. I better get those torqued down as well!

glad you were alright and figured it out man

 

I use Lock tite, never ever had a problem.

 

i just about lost mine last week, not a good thing to fill when you see it.

 

Fronts torque 166 ft-lbs and rear are 128 ft-lbs.

 

Thanks for the clarification. I will use locktite as well.

 

Caliper bolts 1992 in lbs & 504 in lbs for the slide pins if you have a in lb torque wrench.

 

Use Blue LocTite.

Green would be a mistake.

Pop

 

Done. I used the only locktite I had (blue). The bolts (front and rear) were torqued to the proper numbers by me.

The bolts "I" ordered were the wrong ones. They were the slide pin bolts, not the caliper mount bolts. Ford didn't have the correct bolts shown in the computer, so they refunded the cost of the slide pin bolts, however, they had the caliper bolts in stock?!?!?!

Anyway, all corrected and running, with only some scraping on inside of the NEW wheels (pics above).