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Old 03-25-2009, 03:48 PM
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Re: Front Brakes ....Help

one other thing not discussed but worth mentioning here. The Alldata.diy and Ford manuals all say that when you remove the caliper anchor bracket that the caliper anchor bolts should be discarded. The first time I did rotors and pads I did indeed discard the bolts, bought 4 new (at $12 ea) and felt good about the finished work. I asked my friend at Ford about this. He told me that they never replace the bolts with new. WTF?! So, after further conversation I learned that the bolts, new, have red loctite on them. Of course when you remove the bolts the loctite bond is broken. That's why they tell you to buy new. They could also say "use red loctite when reinstalling" but that's just not a Ford thing to do. Sooo, don't discard the bolts but do definitely get a bottle of red loctite and use it and properly torque the bolt.

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