SirAustin
Front brakes installed.
by , 10-06-2011 at 11:18 PM (1619 Views)
Finally the front suspension and brakes are done. I think might be re-greasing them.
After playing with different spacers and torque settings finally got all the castle nuts to line up so they would accept cotter pins.
After that got done I torqued the wheel hubs on used 230 ft lbs of torque the book said 225-250 so I went with 230. The hubs spin pretty freely but not as much as they did before they were torqued I hope that was right. A few friends were questioning that torque setting saying it sounded high.
Brakes were next everything went together pretty good those little black boots are a hidden talent to get on. The book called for some grease to be put on the guide rods for the breaks I was missing the grease that was supposed to be with them so I used some synthetic grease I had laying around. I might take them apart and go buy the right grease I didn’t think it would matter that much but now in retrospect I might want to change that grease out?
Anyways here is some updated pictures of today’s progress.
(Updated picture of more magical spacers needed to line up the cotter pin on the castle nuts)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]5019[/ATTACH]
(Picture of front suspension with brakes on)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]5020[/ATTACH]
(Me being dorky and throwing the wheel on for the fun of it)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]5021[/ATTACH]
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