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Mission Accomplished....but not without incident!
You guys remember me whining a few months ago about Kal Tire failing to torque my left front wheel? Well, the results of that incident reared up today as I sheared off two lug nuts just trying to get the wheel off.
The threads on both were clearly damaged. In any case, off to Canadian Tire Duncan....(**BTW...did you hear that the owner and manager of Cdn Tire Duncan were killed this morning in a helicopter crash?) 
I swaped out the bad studs, then went about the rotor and pad replacement. Another problem came up on the left side when the upper caliper mounting bolt stripped the threads out of the knuckle...Jesus! I tapped for a new bolt, luckily it took.
It took me, not counting the drive to Duncan, about 4.5 hours to do the left side, and about 50 minutes to do the right....funny how you learn by doing eh?
I had no problem getting the cone washers out, but I ran into a tough situation that wasn't in the book. I have a thick aluminum spacer ring between the wheel and the hub/rotor flange. It's this aluminum spacer that the wheel studs are pressed into from behind. The nuts holding this spacer to bolts running from the back of the rotor were on with incredible torque, and only a good air gun and heat got them off.
The grease inside the hubs looked brand new, which makes me wonder if they were done when the truck was imported.
The old rotors had heat cracks on the back side...the sort of fractures/cracks you see on a roasted clutch plate.
In any case, went out and gradullay put some heat in the brakes, and they're working well.
You guys remember me whining a few months ago about Kal Tire failing to torque my left front wheel? Well, the results of that incident reared up today as I sheared off two lug nuts just trying to get the wheel off.
The threads on both were clearly damaged. In any case, off to Canadian Tire Duncan....(**BTW...did you hear that the owner and manager of Cdn Tire Duncan were killed this morning in a helicopter crash?) I swaped out the bad studs, then went about the rotor and pad replacement. Another problem came up on the left side when the upper caliper mounting bolt stripped the threads out of the knuckle...Jesus!
I tapped for a new bolt, luckily it took.It took me, not counting the drive to Duncan, about 4.5 hours to do the left side, and about 50 minutes to do the right....funny how you learn by doing eh?
I had no problem getting the cone washers out, but I ran into a tough situation that wasn't in the book. I have a thick aluminum spacer ring between the wheel and the hub/rotor flange. It's this aluminum spacer that the wheel studs are pressed into from behind. The nuts holding this spacer to bolts running from the back of the rotor were on with incredible torque, and only a good air gun and heat got them off.
The grease inside the hubs looked brand new, which makes me wonder if they were done when the truck was imported.
The old rotors had heat cracks on the back side...the sort of fractures/cracks you see on a roasted clutch plate.
In any case, went out and gradullay put some heat in the brakes, and they're working well.
