well to top off my list of odd repairs, decided to toss on a pair of new brake pads & freshly turned rotors on the kiddos car, during reassembly I looked at one of the caliper bolts that had quit a bit of gunk on it..... grrrrrrr low an behold the previous "douche" (owner) JB welded it since he stripped out the lower caliper bolt. gdsobmf!

can you heli coil these or better to just buy a spindle from the junk yard?

 

Could go that route, but it is the front brakes were talking about, and on your kids car, not yours, so I'd replace the spindle. On the other hand, Mine, I'd helicoil it because I'm cheap, and no one else drives it. Since it was totaled and rebuilt, I won't let anyone ride in the back seat, because the car was crushed in, and pulled back out, and if it were hit again, you could be killed in the back seat.

 

glad I replaced it bearing was going finally had a few rough spots, thank god for ebay neon parts in my city are getting hard to find @ the junk yards