sman

Well the grade 10.9 bolt that I bought that was an exact replacement to the one that holds the rear caliper bracket to the car sheared last night. It was not pretty, the top of the caliper and bracket dug into the inside of the wheel, tore that all to hell. Ruined my brand new paint job there, I had been driving it for 3 days and my **** is ******. When the caliper dug into the wheel it locked that wheel up completely at first, I just bearly missed a mailbox and almost went into the ditch. I'm probably going to need a new wheel, it carved a lot of material out of the inside, and I for sure need a new caliper bracket. Well I have to goto class, I'll try and pictures up later.

FORCE_FED_Z

Ouch- that sucks. When it comes to brake parts I only use the highest grade available. In your defense, I would have figured that 10.9 would have been high enough, esp for the rear since they don't do nearly the work the fronts do...

paarman97maro

wow that sucks man.. glad you and most of the car are okay.

sman

Yea, I would have thought 10.9 is high enough grade too, especially since thats what is on the car in the rear, avidently not.

ITSA6

hey good luck with getting it fixed glad nothing too major happened

Bernotas05

Damn that sucks man, Good luck fixing it up.

sman

Thx guys, I think the wheel is going to be alright, nothing for sure tho, seems good tho. I'm still pretty sure im gunna need a new rear caliper bracket, not to worried about the cost of that, just kinda pissed I have to repaint it.

Bernotas05

What repaint your caliper or did that **** wack your car somehow?

2000v6cam

that sucks dude same exact thing happened to me except it was my front passenger wheel and the wheel locked excatly like what happened to u so i know how that sucks

sman

No, not the car, the caliper and bracket. I spent alot of time cleaning, preping, and painting the brake parts, I even took them off as to make sure I did a 115% job, I finally thought I could be done with the work, and sit back and enjoy something I accomplished(means alot to me, not being much of a car guy coming into this), but avidently its time to go buy another can of black and clear from autozone...

Bernotas05

Yes word, That does suck No matter how small of a thing you do with your car you take pride in yer work.

NoRiceInside

loc-tite. its not that the bolt broke, its that it loosened, weakened, then broke.

i had that happen twice on my red camaro. first time it happened i was attempting to slow from 70 mph. it was the bottom bolt, so it did what happened to you. and it dug into my ZR1 wheel. sucked ***. second time it happened it was the top bolt, so it only had a problem in reverse.

sman

I was told never to use loc-tite on anything that is to be torqued to a spec, especially brake parts. Whats the deal?

mxracerbrian

loctite wont hurt anything. i use that **** for everything

bummer about all the issues tho

sman

Red, blue, green, or purple?