Holy shít dude!
What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (83 Viewers)
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desmocruiser
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New Caliper bolts or did you reuse the old ones?
Took the 'ole pup out for a cruise tonight.
Like every car I've worked on my adult life I re-used them. But I didn't add any loctite. I'll remedy that tomorrow.
Didn't notice any grinding before it cut through the wheel?
I didn't hear anything. I was driving down the highway at 55-60 and slowed to turn left. Right as it stopped it let go.
35's a diesel and driving with my windows down likely masked any noise.
desmocruiser
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Sure you aren’t the only and likely happens in shops that way many times per day on various vehicles.
Seems there is plenty of discussion of both using new each time or cleaning, loctiting, correctly torquing, and reusing the old on almost every car enthusiast forum.
On my 80 that gets extensive trail use I try and use a lot of new hardware on the critical stuff, either what T recommends or they are just gummed up.
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Outsane
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77mustard40
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Some small videos of the Rally
MIMC snap 2 - https://youtu.be/_-qw7ax8hHI
MIMC snap 4 - https://youtu.be/uvV-KDaQJlI
MIMC snap 5 - https://youtu.be/3oplJThiXJY
MIMC snap 2 - https://youtu.be/_-qw7ax8hHI
MIMC snap 4 - https://youtu.be/uvV-KDaQJlI
MIMC snap 5 - https://youtu.be/3oplJThiXJY
@Dusten we stopped and helped an 80 guy after cruise moab who had the same issue.
Wife said it had been making a noise for weeks..
Based on the wheel in don't think it made noise very long.
In these two images you can see the caliper ground a bit and then dug in and smashed the rim. It was such a quick death because the bottom came off.
I had a few bolts in my bolt bin that worked perfect. I replaced the lower with an oem bolt. Loctite and torqued to 90 ft/lbs.
the upper was finger tight. So I pulled it, loctite and torqued.
when I get a wheel Monday or Tuesday I'll pull it in the garage and go over everything with a fine tooth comb I guess.
At least it didn't let go at 60mph on the highway. Holy s*** dude, you seriously have the worst luck. Hopefully it's smooth sailing from here.
Outsane
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I searched on here and found a few threads mentioning it. Torquing the brake bolts will now be a pm when rotating tires.
That's all I can keep thinking is at least it didn't happen up in the mountains or with my kids or on i5.
This wasn't luck. It was my fault to some degree. I've done brakes on this.
Probably not your brake job that was the root cause ... probably the 19 brake jobs before you owned the truck.
I had to helicoil one of the threads for my front calipers because I couldn't reach torque (felt like a previous cross-thread, which would be in line with some of the other shoddy stuff I found on the front end). Your story will definitely have me checking torque on the caliper bolts next time I'm under the truck.
Honestly this is one of those things where I only look at the torque specs to use them as a minimum requirement.
I torque these bolts to spec and than I give them some extra love and try to get at least another 1/4 turn.
I don't think I am strong enough to actually hurt anything by over torquing the caliper bolts.
I have probably done brakes on an 80 series 8 or 9 times and I have never had this problem with my gorilla approach.
jfz80
Cruisin’
Discovered why it handled like a wet noodle on way home last weekend. Not any real “wheeling” either. Second time I’ve had one come out but now have a broken bolt to deal with as well :/
Replaced my melting 40th badges with a great replacement kit from overland metric. They look fantastic. Debating if I should add the limited addition sticker or just leave the emblem
