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louiskathy
Explorer
Jul 16, 2014

Brake noise went from clunk to a horrible grind in a hurry

During our repair trip of 2012... (that's about all we did the entire five months on the road) we had stopped in Bismarck and had the last of our repairs done. We replaced brake pads, put on new r...
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Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Jul 16, 2014
rhagfo wrote:
One more reason I do my own work and look up all torque specs. On my 01 Ram those similar bolts get torqued to 200 ft. lbs.!


"the bolts holding the brake calipers came loose"

I think you need to look at the spec again. 200# is way too much.


I just looked at the picture My comment was wrong I thought she was talking about the slide bolts. 200# is not out of the question!

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