Originally posted by Cronopoulos
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Originally posted by Wishno87
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Anyway here's the clearance for the adjusters with no washers installed. Luckily it looks like I'll be able to adjust from just the inside bolt
Today I did more shit.
Just picked up this jack from Harbor Freight, $130. It's great except the release valving sucks.
Got the ebrakes back on
It helps if you peer through these gaps when you're lining up the little spring loaded pins in the ebrake.
Driveshaft is finally back in--way more of a bitch than I thought it would be. Lots of pbblaster in the expansion joint and leveraging. Note the bent fuel line between the two tanks... that's what happens when you get too aggressive lowering the subframe before you pull the driveshaft out of it.
Oh yeah, I got brake stuff. Fucking finally--I have had shitty brakes for too damn long.
Caliper spreaders are $10 well spent.
HP+ are squealy motherfuckers, so use this shit liberally.
No bottle openers
Here's my front passenger's side caliper. Note the uneven pad wear--the inside pad is much more worn than the outside. This indicates frozen caliper pins. The caliper is rebuilt with new sliding pins, but the holes in the bracket are rusted out.
So, I got another rebuilt caliper, this time with a new bracket as well.
Buttoned up....
About to bleed brakes
Turns out, the rebuilt caliper I bought was shit. The bleeder doesn't work at all. Kragen won't have another one until Tuesday. I've got plans, so I clean up and snap one last pic
More tomorrow if it's not raining. Should still be able to use the old caliper with the new bracket.
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