rear caliper bolts when changing pads

[Franco Barber]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:58:12PM -0400, George Harris wrote:
> On every car that I've worked on and replaced the pads, new bolts (I 
> assume you're talking about the bolts the calipers slide on) did not 
> come with the pads. In most cases the bolts were seized and needed good 
> lubrication just to get them sliding again. New ones would have been a 
> godsend, but I cleaned them up with a wire brush and used plenty of 
> lubrication when I reassembled. No one died yet :-)

Hi George,
The bolts you are talking about here are for the front brakes.
On the rear brakes on these cars, the guides that slide in and out
of the caliper carrier are "fixed" to the caliper carrier, and out
on the very end of this guide is a tapped hole for a very small bolt,
full of threads and with no sliding part, that holds the caliper to
the guides.  

See this picture of a rear brake caliper carrier:
<http://img.eautopartscatalog.com/live/N103654205.JPG>

In that picture you can see the guides that slide in and out of
the caliper carrier, with a little boot on them to protect them,
and on the end of the guide is what looks like a nut with a
tapped hole in the center.  The caliper connects there, and the
little bolt I am talking about is used to hold it in place.

The concensus seems to be I can reuse these bolts, but I should
put a little "blue" loctite on them when I do so.

Franco

> 
> The blue stuff is a locktite equivalent.
> 
> Cheers
> George
> 

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