Unofficial May 2008 Truck of The Month...Enter / Nominate Here!!

[Wifey]

DIY no luck ,,,,, SHAAAAAAAGY !

That's not right. You're a member

hmmmm

 

[VIPR PWR]

That's not right. You're a member

hmmmm

I know ,, a very long time member . Even longer than my membership date by around a year .. we use to be able to follow DIY’s back in the day when Fast Jack and Patrick started and owned the site .

 

[VIPR PWR]

I remember when some members flew and rent Fast Jack a car to come to the first Panama GTG .. He loved wearing his MU MU hahaha

 

[Wifey]

Ahhh yes! The MuMu! Those were the days. Patrick and Jack treated us good.

 

[Wifey]

Jacks scooter was stolen and the members pitched in and got him a new one

 

[VIPR PWR]

Ahhh yes! The MuMu! Those were the days. Patrick and Jack treated us good.

Yes , back in the day beat freakbook hands down .. glad they started it .. learned a whole lot about these trucks

 

[VIPR PWR]

Jacks scooter was stolen and the members pitched in and got him a new one

I don’t remember hearing that .. But the generosity on here was massive .

 

[Wifey]

I don’t remember hearing that .. But the generosity on here was massive .

Could have happened during the first forum before VTCOA was started. But yeah someone stole the old farts scooter and the good folks on here/there got him fixed up.

 

[Wifey]

Yes , back in the day beat freakbook hands down .. glad they started it .. learned a whole lot about these trucks

Me too!!

 

[Michael from the U.K.]

I can access DIY,what ya looking for?

 

[Wifey]

Nice! I was trying to figure out what level member you need to be to access these restricted forums. Apparently Supporting Member is the key! Thought it was Full Access but nope. Although I'm neither

 

[Wifey]

How are you doing Michael? Well I hope!

 

[Michael from the U.K.]

Hi Wifey,pretty good thanks,glad your back on here posting daily.
Hope you well too.

 

[Wifey]

Hi Wifey,pretty good thanks,glad your back on here posting daily.
Hope you well too.

I wish more members would post. Hard to believe it's been 20 years for our trucks!

 

[VIPR PWR]

I can access DIY,what ya looking for?

Right now I’m looking for the size of the tools I need to remove the calipers and possible rebuilding them , replacing lower ball joints .. I like to make sure I have all in order prior to doing any work on everything … trying to find brake vids of the 2005 QC online that shows everything is pretty much nill !

 

[Michael from the U.K.]

My winter job was tidy up the 10 including new front bushes ,ball joints etc.
The ball joints were easy once I applied heat( simple blow lamp) worked around the joint for a couple of minutes and then apply hard percussion ( big hammer)
I’ll take a look later for the calliper info as I’m off to work now,have a great day.

 

[Michael from the U.K.]

I wish more members would post. Hard to believe it's been 20 years for our trucks!

Indeed,twenty years of smiles and still looking great.

 

[Michael from the U.K.]

found this,hope it helps

Hey, Huge thread in the making here... This weekend i plan on:

1) Removing the calipers in there entirety
2) Sand and re paint the calipers
3) Install new brake pads
4) Turn rotors
5) Flush old brake fluid and replace with ATE Super Blue

Every step will be added in this thread so keep posted :rock:

Today i removed the front two calipers:

First, take the wheel off..
Then you need to unscrew the brake line from the caliper.. make sure you
have a pan under where the brake line meets the caliper as the caliper has
quite alot of brake fluid in it..

After the removal it should look like this:

Now make sure you have the jack securely under the truck.. Now this
may not be the best way but i can tell you it worked very well.. after you make
sure the truck is secure in place take some rubber gloves and rubber bands
and wrap the end of the brake line tight.. take a rubber band and wrap towards
the top of the glove then go to the fingers and put another rubber band tight
around that so you don't have too much fluid in the gloves.. now i found out
the hard way that you should "Double wrap"... so in this case.. as soon as your
done wrapping the line. take another glove and wrap it again.. but this time
just wrap the top.. no need for the fingers..

Here i have just the first wrapping..

Now to take the caliper off, or atleast get a tool back there to do that you need
to turn the wheel of the truck.. hence why i told you to make sure the truck
was secure Now turn the wheel so that the two bolts you are trying
to remove are easy to get to.. now take a impact wrench and have at it..
it will take quite a bit of effort before the bolt starts to turn.. that's because
they used thread lock at the ends..... after you remove both bolts simply
lift up and place the caliper somwhere safe.. like a bench :rock:

Repeat the same thing on the opposite side of the truck and you will have
both brake calipers off.. :rock::rock::rock:

Some pictures:

Keep tuned in for tommorows session.. I'm going to remove the rear calipers,
sand and paint all four.. :rock:

See ya tommorow,

Sharpi

 

[VIPR PWR]

found this,hope it helps

Good info, thanks , but no mention of the tools I need , sizes of sockets wrenches , appears at the least a breaker bar as my impact gun doesn’t have the power to even remove the lug nuts hahaha . I hate starting a job to find out I can’t find the tool I need and have to run somewhere and get one ..

 

[VIPR PWR]

My winter job was tidy up the 10 including new front bushes ,ball joints etc.
The ball joints were easy once I applied heat( simple blow lamp) worked around the joint for a couple of minutes and then apply hard percussion ( big hammer)
I’ll take a look later for the calliper info as I’m off to work now,have a great day.

I was warned not to use heat or torch on the ball joints and to get the puller/ press to remove them as they may explode using a torch . When I do those I will be getting a loner from the local parts store .