Just thought I'd share with the group that Durango's with rear discs are
the pits. Especially if you have to turn the rotors.
The rear caliper has attaches to a bracket. This bracket then atttaches
to the axle housing. You can't just remove the caliper and then take off the
rotor. You have to take both the bracket and caliper completely off.
The caliper bracket is held on with 2 21mm bolts. These bolts are put on at
the factory with blue locktite. The rear sway bar links and the leaf spring
plate on the bottom interfere with using almost any kind of impact tools to
get those bolts out. The 3/8 air ratchet wouldn't budget them and the
1/2 drive impact gun is too large to get in the available space. You can't
even get to them with a long extension as the swaybar is right in the way
on the top bolt and the spring plate is in the way of the bottom.
Luckily I had the truck up on the lift and was able to use a 3 foot
breaker bar and a 4 foot cheater pipe to get them to budge. They fought me
till I had about 4 threads left.
I would't try this on jack stands in a driveway. You'd have to put on a
box wrench on the bolts and use a large hammer and beat the bolts out.
Next time around, I'm paying someone to do this..
-- Miles D. Oliver www.mmoliver.org _________________ "If a man speaks in the woods where there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong? Probably.""If a woman speaks in the forest with no man near to hear her, is she still complaining? Of course."
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