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Holy Crap!!!
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&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>
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&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>
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Fronts torque 166 ft-lbs and rear are 128 ft-lbs.
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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).
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).
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