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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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mich800
Explorer
Jul 16, 2014
powderman426 wrote:
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.!


Are you sure?? I have never seen any caliper bolts that take that kind of torque.
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It looks like the caliper mounting bracket that was not properly attached not the caliper. The caliper bracket does get a pretty good torque setting.

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