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    Anyone ever had your lugnuts back off your wheel some ?

    changed rotors on the front of my 98 Cobra saturday.....i have 18" Bullits all the way around...and i have drove it about 5-6 miles...i got back and decided to check the lug nuts and they were somewhat loose.....so to make sure the wheel wasnt on loosely,i jacked the car up....loosened the lug...
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    caliper sliding pin question

    laserred...yes sir i did today lol red2000..thanks man...i sure hope i did...it had me running in circles for a little bit...but nothing the trusty ole grinder couldnt handle lol
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    caliper sliding pin question

    anybody ?
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    caliper sliding pin question

    i replaced the brakes on all 4 corners.....the caliper sliding pin in my passenger side right caliper broke,so i replaced it with another one that was about 1/4" longer...after i got everything back together is when i started noticing the rotor on that side was way hotter than the other 3.... so...
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    so technically speaking i could use the caliper off a taurus or a sable ?
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    so the 2 notches in the piston ... one should be straight up and one should be straight down ...correct svttech ?
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    no sander...all i have is a grinder...and that would probably mess them up or take way to much off,i assume
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    well it has to eb something like that i would think...it dont seem like i coulda drove it 250 miles one day,then it start stickingthe next...although i guess it COULD happen....maybe its one of those nipples...thatd be great :)
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    thanks man...will definately do what you reccomend...if that doesnt work...then i'll go with svttech's idea :)
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    come to think of it stangman...the pads did have nipples on the opposite side of the pads...those little nipples will i assume make the pad stick out just a hair further when its against the caliper piston ?
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    lol..boy does that ever sound familiar lol...so you would say just get a new caliper and be done with it huh ?....is there somewhere online to order a new one ?...just looking for a stock regular ole caliper if thats still possible these days lol
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    so if it was wore at angle almost completly gone...that would mean the caliper has been sticking for a long time right ?....but if thats the case wouldnt the guy that had it noticed ,smelled it or saw it smoking or something ?
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    Brake guru's...i need help please....

    ok...last saturday i went and picked up a 98 Cobra vert....i drove it 250 miles home with no absolute problem at all.The next day i noticed the pads on the passenger side rear was wore down REAL bad.So being as the car is lowered some,i backed it up in my garage up on to 2 bricks laying side by...
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    Vette

    corvette forum as rick said...thats where i went when i had my 93.....good group of guys ( most of them ) and alot of knowledge there as well
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    Clutch question & Tranny advice help please

    93 GT 331 stroker crate with king cobra clutch 1st the clutch.....when i'm driving and its in 4th, i can hear what sounds like little birds chirpping....i can mash the clutch just a very,very little bit and it stops....when i let out it does it again...could it need adjusting or what ...
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    backfiring question

    jrichker...it is EFI,it has 24# injectors and the MAF i have absolutely no clue as to what it is sorry :(
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    backfiring question

    if i get in my car,93 GT with a crate stroker 331....if i get in it,crank it and leave right then, it will backfire 1 maybe 2 times...but after it warms up it doesnt do it anymore at all...anyone have any ideas ?:shrug:
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    LX Taillights on a GT

    heres mine...cobra rear bumper with LX tails