"Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote in message
>
> unless some asshat shop monkey decided to try his SAE set in there a
> little overzealously before he dug out the metrics and stripped the
> shit out of the hex hole. Then it turns into an all afternoon project
> because vice grips won't like to grab onto hardened polished steel
> (it'll flatten the nubs in the jaws before it'll dig in and grab). I
> had to cut off the protective rubber boot thing and grid a flat into
> the pin to get one out of my driver's side. And no, my die grinder
> wouldn't fit.
LOL@ asshat shop monkey. Sorry to hear that you had a problem like that
Mike. People like that are the reason that I do all my own work.
> I now have SAE heads on the left and metric on the right. was about $8
> for the set of pins.
you couldn't get new metric slides? and for $8, I'd have replaced both
sides to minimize the amount of tools required to do the job.
> that was almost a nightmare install, but more of just a real big pain
> in the ass. still very easy, all considered.
definately, disc brakes are cake...unless people make it difficult for you.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html
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