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Did the wife's brakes yesterday.Updated with pics

KTJMcG

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Almost turned into the brake job from hell. Got the rear in the air and the jack stands under the axel only to have the passenger side wheel seized on. I couldn't get it to budge. Put the drivers side back on and drove it around for about 45 minutes. Got it back in the air on the jackstands and popped both wheels off and got started. Only problem after that was turning the piston in on the rear. The instructions for the tool gave the wrong number for the disc to compress it. Don't know if anybody tried this,but I got tired of chasing the caliper while turning it. I came up with the idea of putting the caliper mount back on and remounting the caliper to hold it in place while turning it. Works perfect. Once I got the wheel off and went throughout everything with a break for coffee,it took me about 1 1/2 hours. She now has slotted and cross drilled rotors and now can't over heat the brakes on her way to the casino. I also used aratcheting box wrench for the first time yesterday and am on my way to Sears to pick up a full set of sae and metrics. Really liked the way it felt. Guy down the street stopped down while I was trying to get the socket on one of the caliper pin bolts and brought his set down. The Magnum is up next. Going to go through that place on eBay where I got these for hers for it. Can't beat the price and the rotors look good through the wheels.

Front
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Rear
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Looks nice. We're nearing 45K on the wife's '09 guess I need to pop the wheels off and inspect brakes front/rear.
Jon
 
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