Today I changed the brakes on my daily. When I was tightening the last (stud?, the floating bolt) on the caliber all the treads broke loss. Damn thing is totally striped. The caliber braket is one peice with the upper a-arm, so I would have to replace the whole thing. Can I sleeve it or some thing and retap with a stock bolt or find a larger floating bolt that will work with my caliper and tap it to that size (if I can find a larger bolt, they don't really carry them at the parts hardware store). Can I walk into the parts store and say give me a floating bolt in x size and not have to buy the caliber too. Or an I kind of screwed and have to repalce the a-arm. Alot of unorginized questions but I need ideas.
Most good parts stores will have a oversize caliper bolt kit or be able to get it. Just drill oversize and re-tap. The chain stores probably won't know what your talking about even if they have it. If you have a parts store around with one of the good ole boys at the counter they should be able to help you. Good Luck
measure your bolt hole find a helicoil size just a pinch bigger. Get corresponding drill bit size. Drill and make the helicoil fit. I'm sure there is instructions on their site..
take the bolt in to a real parts store, figure out what the thread is (should be metric, some number of mm diameter x some mm thread pitch) see if they sell a thread repair kit for that thread. if so, get the kit ($$$) and the necessary drill bit (more $$$), and learn about thread repair.
you can buy a helicoil kit that has the drill bit in it, but you need to find out what size bolts (caliper slide) they make or have first......i might not be the next size up.
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