Our trailblazer gets used full time during the winter and part time during the summer. Every year about this time i go through the truck to make sure everything is good for the winter (mostly because I'm a wuss about working in the snow!). take it out and the brakes feel really mushy. No worries, every year I go through the suspension and brakes which includes cleaning the caliper pins and re-lube them. three wheels down and brakes look great. get to the fourth wheel and the pads are stuck, end up beating them out with a hammer. go to unbolt the caliper bracket and wow, those bolts are on there. finally break them loose and they fought the whole way out. look at the bolts and there is a ring of lock-tite on both of the bolts! clean the bolts, hardware, grooves in the caliper bracket, slider pins and put light coating of brake lubricant on the hardware... and the pads dont fit...ended up having to grind 1/16th to 1/8" off the pad ends to get them in there so they could move just a touch.
so the back story is that last year my wife was 3 hours from home and things went south. she called in a panic on the way to a meeting that the brake went to the floor and there was all sorts of racket from the back of the truck. She was in view of a Midas so the truck went there and they gave her a ride to the meeting. Midas put a new caliper, rotor, and pads on this corner after a catastrophic failure (which I have yet to have fully explained to me, it involved a broken rotor and caliper that was in pieces). apparently they beat the pads in and put lock-tite on the caliper bracket for a staggering $750.
Anyone else ever put lock-tite on a caliper bolt? I just use a torque wrench
so the back story is that last year my wife was 3 hours from home and things went south. she called in a panic on the way to a meeting that the brake went to the floor and there was all sorts of racket from the back of the truck. She was in view of a Midas so the truck went there and they gave her a ride to the meeting. Midas put a new caliper, rotor, and pads on this corner after a catastrophic failure (which I have yet to have fully explained to me, it involved a broken rotor and caliper that was in pieces). apparently they beat the pads in and put lock-tite on the caliper bracket for a staggering $750.
Anyone else ever put lock-tite on a caliper bolt? I just use a torque wrench
