Originally Posted By Sixpak
Before you have too much time invested in those caliper brackets, run a tap through the caliper pin threads and make sure they are good. In your pics they look a bit rusty. They can be nearly impossible to heli coil as there isn't a lot of meat there to hold a sufficient number of heli coil threads to do the job. Been there, done that...had them pulling out/unthreading on me when screwing in the pins even after trying to loc tite the heli coil in place...that's one advantage the sliders have over the pin type brackets...


You're absolutely right, mine seem to have cleaned up nice, thanks to a thread chaser my friend let me use.







Ryan