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Old 03-05-2012, 02:51 AM
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Default MY LS brake swap

well if it went off with out any promblems I would just showed up and had pics but the parts god does not like me .

story goes like this ok i get both spindal and calipers off a 1998 Camaro 75.00 , good deal ok check out claipers ,bleeders screws good , paint caliper nice, painted spindal .

Get all parts like hunting down brake line washers ,brake hard wear kit. Wrong get them on frigging banjo bolt stripps out caliper now junk , now i have to buy calipers ,man it came with all that stuff -man so pissed , should of just got new calipers from the get-go lesson leard , advice to any one think off doing the swap.
,driver's side .now the upper control arm bushing's driver's side wiped out great . Just aggravating so much for a simple job. now sawpping out bushings



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Old 03-05-2012, 03:20 AM
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funny u posted this i was thinking of doing the ls brake swap on my car in the summer let me now how they feel once you get them all put together and drive on them for a few miles. hope it goes together smooth from here on out. haha
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Old 03-05-2012, 03:21 AM
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Eh at least now you know for any future ideas. Still a bummer though. Sorry to hear that man.
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Old 03-05-2012, 03:22 AM
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i told you to run the LS1 Banjo Bolts! and never trust used calipers unless they come from a trusted source.
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thanks mike,

i did use LS banjo bolts putting it back together hahahaha sure thing ben
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...and never trust used calipers unless they come from a trusted source.
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Hey you let them SIT without being capped for MONTHS! thats your boo boo
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well thanks mike no really they were cap just my shit luck new ones were like 52$ minus the core
thanks for the heads up mike and help mike befor i started
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Jay i was reffering to Klab the post above me. he bought a break swap off my firebird. and left them open and got mad they seized up........
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Ok but thanks for help
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