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Anyone want to guess what losing a caliper bolt at 70mph sounds like?

industrialfish

industrialfish

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It just rattled around in the rim for a few seconds, before it got flung into the wheel well plastics. It was loud enough and lasted long enough that I had time to turn down the radio to investigate the new noise.

Actually, I got VERY lucky. It was a front bottom mounting bolt, so the caliper didn't move until I went to back out of my driveway this morning, then it was a face-palm because I knew immediately what I had heard last night.

The only thing that sucks, is no auto parts store have caliper bolts in stock and I need my car this afternoon, so off to Menards to hope I can get one hard enough to do the job.
 


was this on a stock brake set up or something else? I've heard the sleeve method is not as good as drilling out the caliper's and tapping them to the grand prix bolt size/thread pitch. maybe this situation supports that claim
 
Nope, stock bolts and essentially stock calipers. Put on July last year, so no one to blame but myself. Menards did have a compatible bolt. Grade 10.9 14MMx2.0x40mm but the flange might be too big and then I'll just have to grind it down.
 
SgtMarshal said:
was this on a stock brake set up or something else? I've heard the sleeve method is not as good as drilling out the caliper's and tapping them to the grand prix bolt size/thread pitch. maybe this situation supports that claim
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the sleeve IMHO wouldn't have anything to do with the bolts ability to stay threaded into the caliper.
 


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