Anti-seize on brake caliper bracket?
I just got done rebuilding the front-end on my 2002 Suburban (ball joints, pitman arm, etc.). The bolts that hold the brake caliper bracket to the knuckle always seem difficult to remove. This tim...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:
You have no worries about having lube on your bolts.
Bolts don't loosen up because they are lubed up. They loosen up because they are not properly tightened.
Think of rod bolts in an engine. They are in lube all the time 24 hours a day and they don't loosen up or have loctite on them. They don't loosen up because they are torqued properly.
X2. Use anti-seize on the caliper bolts and torque to manufacture spec. I was a Saab mechanic and never had a brake caliper fall off a car ever.
