Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
04-22-2015, 02:19 PM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
A couple more things in my opinion:
CRC Brakleen is the best
H.F. Dark Blue Nitrile Gloves are the best
Phenolic is plastic piston
I have decided never to turn rotors again. It has never...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
04-22-2015, 06:04 AM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
JoeH: Just a heads up. I cleaned up my calipers and did not replace them. The Napa calipers I looked at had plastic pistons. My vehicle's calipers had metal pistons. Apparently the two types are...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
02-08-2015, 08:27 PM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
Baja is right, a .38 or a 9mm or even a .45 in a large frame are all great handling brushes. But a .40 is simply an unpleasant brush to handle.*
So, when considering brush (and ski)...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
02-08-2015, 06:44 PM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
I wasn't really going to work on the brakes this weekend, but I wanted to install the Mile Marker manual locking hubs (see related thread) so I did fool with the caliper on the driver's side.
The...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-21-2015, 07:37 AM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
JoeH and shenrie:* Before reading my mind... could you guys at least announce when you're in here... Right now I am at the McDonald's waiting for the area's largest Napa auto parts store to open...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-15-2015, 06:15 PM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
I am passing on the Motul. The Motul fluid advisor only goes back to 1997 for the Ford F-150 and does not list the Bronco which was last manufactured in 1996. Although, under the Classic car button...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-15-2015, 10:11 AM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
Thanks guys! Mueckster whom I really respect (he rebuilt his own 4R100 transmission for heaven's sake) over at the FTE forum has this to say:
"Moisture in the brake fluid is one of the biggest...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 04:14 PM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
carringb: Wow. Talk about turning the telescope around! So there are two opposing approaches to brake bleeding? One is pressurize the master cylinder (Motive power brake bleeder) and second is...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 03:33 PM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
Thanks Paul! Every time I see your avatar, I want to ask is that speck on the top of that pinnacle you?
My wife and kayaked 243 miles of the Grand Canyon (with raft support for cushy camping) and...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 02:58 PM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
carringb et al. OK I am going to go with the Motul DOT 4 you recommended (guys check out those reviews on Amazon in the link carringb provided).
So what do you think about a power brake bleeder? ...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 02:19 PM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
boywonder: First of all, very few things are obvious to me and many things that I once thought were obvious, are more and more not, in fact, what I thought. So, you will never offend me by pointing...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 11:33 AM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
JoeH: Probably out of my price range and hopefully not really necessary, but after looking at The Brake Man's website for you that have run them, is it really true that these calipers are "zero...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 10:10 AM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
BogusBlake: You also get a gold star for the photos in your thread and your discussion with carringb about Ford SuperDOT3 or DOT-5.1 and Motorcraft PM-1C. Can I assume that the latter is the...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 08:47 AM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
Thanks guys! I printed out the Permatex photo and will take it with me to Napa.
One guy on ford-trucks.com suggest that I buy the mounting bracket not just the caliper (because the slide pin...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 08:21 AM
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 07:52 AM
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Re: Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
The deal is that the front brake pads are dragging on the discs with the existing (likely original 1995) calipers thereby blackening the front wheels with brake dust (ok, they are on my 1995 Ford...
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Forum: Projects, Modifications and Known Issues
01-14-2015, 06:34 AM
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Rebuild or Remanufactured Brake Calipers?
Napa's front disc brake calipers all seem to be remanufactured? And it looks like a lot of people have had problems with remanufactured brake calipers (not necessarily Napa).
The forparts.com...
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