Project SS!

[HAULN-SS]

Frustrating time last night. Was just about to get everything buttoned up - just had to put the caliper on the caliper bracket. Turns out, I think the caliper bracket is twisted or something. I had a hard time getting the torx bolt and shims in place because it seemed like it was way out of wack - worse than the driver's side. After it was all lined up and torqued down, the rotor was rubbing on the very edge a little bit. So, much cussing later, I have the air grinder out and I'm getting the clearances shaved a little bit so that everything works, finally bolted back on, rotor spins freely..alright..home stretch! Or...not. The caliper wouldn't bolt on to the caliper pins - at least not both at the same time. I think the bracket itself has some twist in it or something that is causing it to not line up propery so if you get one bolt on, the other one won't go. Pretty damn annoying.

I have contacted the place I ordered the kit from and the hilarious part is he's like "well the fastest way for us to get you a new one is if you buy it." Which makes no sense - but I'm ready to get done with this. He tells me then that the "warranty on the part is voided" because I was grinding it down for clearance. We'll see how it goes, but he wants to look at it before sending a refund on the new on that I have to buy..it's a real WTF kind of way of doing business. The borked one is cast steel, so there's no way it could have ever fit without modifications, and even that wasn't enough.