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I have an 86 e350 cutaway that was converted into a rollback. Just did shoes and wheel cylinders and now I’m doing pads, rotors, calipers, up front. I ordered acdelco calipers from rockauto and they have the V sliders. The caliper on the truck doesn’t have the sliders but I’m not seeing another caliper option to order from rockauto or the local parts stores. Any info on would help, Thanks
The V sliders are the newer style
Yours is the older style with a tapered shank bolt and a HD metal retainer
That is Rock Auto sending out wrong parts again
Just get the older style from them, if they can get them
I use Detroit Axle on Ebay (way cheaper and the right stuff mostly)
Wonderful
But
He needs the calipers, he got the wrong ones
The sliders last about forever even beat to chit
The bolts break, do they have the special tapered bolt?
Take the year back to 81 on rockauto for that one. Make sure to order right or left. Picture is an example
order brake lines too, guaranteed those are done too
Wonderful
But
He needs the calipers, he got the wrong ones
The sliders last about forever even beat to chit
The bolts break, do they have the special tapered bolt?
I generally don't answer much anymore, as when I try to help people have a habit of being snippy with me.
Guess I'll stop. Got called boomer on the Facebook version of this , all because the guy wasn't smart enough to drive the wedges out of the caliper with a punch and small hammer
gotta love this new world
Same here, you answer away, he probably needs new slides anyway, and Dorman has the bolts I see
I try to purposely put words in like "might" to not sound so snippety
I also say nothing sometimes like mom taught me
Thanks for the replies everybody. Ended up going back a couple years and finding the right ones. So I went got those calipers and was planning to return the ones with the sliders until I took the passenger wheel and found that side has the newer style with the sliders lol someone “frankensteined” this truck apparently
Ouch!
Might want to match up some knuckles so they match and the brakes match
Either style would be fine IMO
Both styles wore pads somewhat unevenly
I find the later style easier to get the pins in and out, rather than the one big slide retainer
I don't remember, but are the 81 set ups king pin? I know the 86 are ball joint.
picture of where the steering nuckel goes to axle please. That truck is going to be a front end alignment night mare!
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