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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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Aye, my front caliper carrier bolts were insanely tight too, way past sensible torque levels. I had to use the breaker bar and my big rattle gun to shift them when I changed the front disks....which reminds me, I've still got the rear disks and pads to replace.
When LR or indy garages replace the disks...they stick the car up on a lift and the 'fitters' tighten the carrier bolts up from underneath, usually without using a torque wrench. Mainly because you can get a bigger swing with a breaker bar if the car is up in the air...added to literally bathing the bolt threads in Loctite. Add a few thousand miles of heat expansion and contraction and it means that anyone trying to remove or replace the carrier bolts on their front drive with the car on axle stands struggle to get the bloody things loose.
Those filler plugs being over tight is concerning though... -
- squizzel
- Member Since: 30 Aug 2025
- Location: west midlands
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 893
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Would you be shocked if I said that doesn't surprise me in the slightest?
As for your trolley jack bending the step brackets...I usually shove my jack fairly far in right where the inner bolts are...ie, not near the edge where the steps are.
Last edited by Mole HD on 25th Aug 2026 6:20 pm. Edited 1 time in total -
- squizzel
- Member Since: 30 Aug 2025
- Location: west midlands
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