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Brakes on the Honda are easy. Rears are only tough cause you gotta "screw" the pistons back in. In either case of fronts or rears an impact screwdriver is your best friend. Sometimes those screws that hold the rotors on can be a PITA.
 
philagony94xj said:
Brakes on the Honda are easy. Rears are only tough cause you gotta "screw" the pistons back in. In either case of fronts or rears an impact screwdriver is your best friend. Sometimes those screws that hold the rotors on can be a PITA.
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Screw the pistons back in?

mac 'uh' gyvr
 
Instead of pressing back in like normal calipers, the piston is threaded. Rent the disk brake master kit from Advance or OReilly and it's cake. The piston will take a special spanner that is in the kit.
 
IllianaXJ said:
Instead of pressing back in like normal calipers, the piston is threaded. Rent the disk brake master kit from Advance or OReilly and it's cake. The piston will take a special spanner that is in the kit.
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ah...now this is good info

mac 'Important thread rules' gyvr
 
So proud of the wife today. She took off the JCR bumper that was on the jeep we picked up, took her bumper off, then installed the JCR bumper. She also took off the front hitch and sway bar along with reinstalling the sway bar. I helped about 2% of all of it, thankfully as I was wrenching on mine all day. Now to treat her to some beers and a country cruise. :cheers:
 
IllianaXJ said:
Instead of pressing back in like normal calipers, the piston is threaded. Rent the disk brake master kit from Advance or OReilly and it's cake. The piston will take a special spanner that is in the kit.
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Just to add to this, these often look like little cubes with a set of pins on each of the 6 sides, and they take a 3/8" ratchet in the center to turn them. It was cheap enough I think I just bought the cube outright. I don't know what else is included in the master kit though?

I spent a lot of time cranking down on the pistons on my Cutlass before I figured out that they screwed in.


So... all of this 2WD vs. 4WD discussion made me list my truck for sale, I found a 4x4 F350 that I may try to get instead.
 
poorboy87 said:
Anyone put the lower xflex arms from rough country on a 3 inch lift?
website says 4 to 6 inch. Is it possible to put them on my 3 inch lift?
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see what the difference in length is?

it might not be that much...the only thing is it might push your axle farther forward that it should be with the smaller lift...

mac 'it would probably work' gyvr
 
Just bought a new yellow top for the baby jeep...online from advanced and saved $30 bucks with no core...

going to pick it up and put it in the baby jeep, hopefully this fixes it. tomorrow I'm going to go back to my parents house to pick the baby jeep up for this weekend at the badlands...

mac 'its always something' gyvr
 
Steve Jobs dead at 56 years old...

mac 'proves you can't take it with you' gyvr
 
poorboy87 said:
Anyone put the lower xflex arms from rough country on a 3 inch lift?
website says 4 to 6 inch. Is it possible to put them on my 3 inch lift?
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I think Josh (rabbit hat) did on his rig..but I may be wrong

Cheese "shit brokle all day so I started drinking...heavily" Man
 
XJ&CHZ4ME said:
I think Josh (rabbit hat) did on his rig..but I may be wrong

Cheese "shit brokle all day so I started drinking...heavily" Man
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Josh went with Longarms.
 
poorboy87 said:
Anyone put the lower xflex arms from rough country on a 3 inch lift?
website says 4 to 6 inch. Is it possible to put them on my 3 inch lift?
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I have adj. lowers set to 4" lift arm length on my 3" lift, it pushes the axle forward just a little not really noticeable. i did it to get the 33's off of the inner fender at full stuff. there was a writeup i found somewhere that had the eye to eye lengths and they weren't that different for 3 and 4'' lifts. i will see if i can find that chart again

EDIT:

Scroll to the bottom of the page for the chart,it says 3" are 16" eye to eye and 4" are 16.33" . i set my adj's do 16-1/2" and it works out perfectly

http://www.yuccaman.com/jeep/re_db.html
 
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