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Old Nov 24, 2007 | 11:27 AM
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My brother and I did my brakes after Thanksgiving dinner and I had Steve print out with me, took me a while to figure outhow to compress the calipers, but after I figured out I could just but a big screwdriver and stick it in the vent of the disk and hold pressure the rest is easy.

But Steve you need to change pushing the guide pins all the way out of the boot, by the time you get grease on the pin and on your hands it's hard to get the little devils back in, so for the rest I push them out till their stopped by the boot and grease them and push them back in.

I still have a half of pad left at 52000 but I was getting a squeal out of the left pad, but the new pads are big improvement over stock ones, asI wasbacking out of the driveway and soon as I touched the brakes, I felt the difference at slow speed and really felt it on the road, seems like I was using less pressure and getting my braking

Thanks again for the great write up Steve and I have you know Dad and a few other looked it over, while watching me and my brother do the work and everyone commented it walked you all the way through it.

Instead of like the books were you have to look at four different parts of the book at once, or they just leave out important information you needed.
 
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Old Nov 24, 2007 | 11:55 AM
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What pads did you use?
 
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Old Nov 24, 2007 | 10:31 PM
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Auto Zone Duralast metal with life time warranty
 
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Old Nov 24, 2007 | 11:08 PM
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I am going to do mine soon, I still have a lot of meat on them buut what the hell. if it is stopping better then might as well.
 
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