I'm trying to get my Cobra brakes on now, how in the heck do you break those two bolts loose that hold the caliper frame to the front spindle???

I have been trying for the past three hours to get those two damn bolts off and I can't make them budge and I'm starting to round them off a little. It is really pissing me off.

Do you gotta get heat on to them or what? are the on there with red lock tight from the factory???

I hate like hell to have to put this back together and have a garage do the same thing at $25 a side to do it because I can't get two lousy bolts off.
Thanks for any help.

Lynn

 

Anybody?
I just spent another 45 minutes trying to get these stupid bolts off, please don't tell me they are reversed threads or something..
I know some of you guys have done this, how in the hell did you got those bolts out?

Lynn

 

$25 a side to install brakes? thats ****ing cheap...

Anyway have you tried silicon oil or anything?

 

So far I've tried WD40, and Liquid wrench
Yes, $25 a front side, and $25 a back side. The place I go to used to do them for $15 a side,but he went up in price a couple years ago.
Lynn

 

Are you talking about the two 15mm bolts? I just did my brake install today. Those bolts were such a bit**. I about had all four of the front ones rounded off by the time I gave up and took it to a local shop this evening. The shop that originally put those brakes on must have torqued it down to 200ft*lb+ cause I couldn't budge them for nothing. I got to the shop just as they closed an slipped a guy a $20 to crack all four of the front ones loose. He had about a 4ft breaker bar and was still struggling with them, but in the end they all came loose. I brought my own wrenches to re-tighten them myself so i knew i could get it back off once i got home. Believe me I was royally pissed to have to bring my car to a shop to loosen some bolts I couldn't get myself.

BTW, if you had the bolts soaking with some pb-blaster or any type of lube make sure to clean whatever dripped on the rotors off for the ride to the shop...I forgot to do so and I had a nice slippy ride there.

Good luck

 

That is really cheap man, I would say cough up the 50 bones or cough up a lot more for your own impact wrench/compressor. OR you could try a torch... Worked getting the spindle off my 10 year old ball joints lol...

 

I'm pretty sure a front brakejob in my area will be a AT LEAST $200

 

Wow, I threw a set of Hawk pad on my stang. Took me in no time. Was a clip and a bolt that slid out.

 

put the appropriate 1/2 inch impact socket on it. put a ratchet on it and while holding the head of the ratchet give the handle a couple of good hard hits. that should be enough to break it free.

 

Yep, those are the ones!!
They gotta be torqued on pretty damn good. I know my lugs are torqued to 100# and I can break those easy. I checked what the torque rating is on those bolts and it is only supposed to be 85-95 #. They are on a lot tighter then that.
I may end up putting the caliper back, bleed it, and get it to garage and have them break them loose as well.
Thanks,
Lynn