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Sunday, September 04, 2005

More Suspension Work

new fiat suspension
Today I did more suspension work. Work on the passenger side was vastly faster and easier with the experience gained from the driver side. At one point I realized a mistake I had made on the driver side suspension (bad install on the shocks) so I quickly re-did that. My one folly of the day was to completely strip the living s**t out of a bolt that attached the brake caliper bracket to the wheel hub assembly. Dammit. Not real sure how to get that off. I could probably spend all day on it tomorrow and not get it off. It's on there good, so it may be enough to hold. But knowing it's stripped will put fear in my mind that it's a failed part and it will bug me. I'll have to find a way to drill it out or something.

On to the front brakes tomorrow.
Comments:
Are the threads stripped, or just the head of the bolt? If the threads are stripped, you'll have to remove the bolt, prolly by drilling through it, and then retap the threads with a tap and die set and replace the bolt. If it's the head that's stripped.. you can file off part of the head and use a crescent wrench on it, or if you're handy with a welder, weld a nut or a bar or something else you can grab onto on it, and go to town with that.
 
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