Front Strut replacement ?
#11
03-19-2013, 04:29 PM
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Location: Tokeland, Washington
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may be a bit different for the 98-02. my master cylinder moved without much bending. your at least 4 years newer and yours may have been garaged and his not. hard to tell. mine were pretty rusty but came lose and where good enough to clean, paint and re use.
#13
03-19-2013, 07:48 PM
I moved mine without doing the brake lines. The new bolts were normal hex head bolts, so I can get on them with a wrench, instead of a torx.
I would imagine mine were so rusted because we put 3.5 trillion tons of rock salt on the roads every winter.
Stupid snow.
You will need to bleed the lines now though.
Glad to hear yours weren't so rusted and were able to be re-used.
I would imagine mine were so rusted because we put 3.5 trillion tons of rock salt on the roads every winter.
Stupid snow.
You will need to bleed the lines now though.
Glad to hear yours weren't so rusted and were able to be re-used.
#14
03-19-2013, 08:11 PM
I moved mine without doing the brake lines. The new bolts were normal hex head bolts, so I can get on them with a wrench, instead of a torx.
I would imagine mine were so rusted because we put 3.5 trillion tons of rock salt on the roads every winter.
Stupid snow.
You will need to bleed the lines now though.
Glad to hear yours weren't so rusted and were able to be re-used.
I would imagine mine were so rusted because we put 3.5 trillion tons of rock salt on the roads every winter.
Stupid snow.
You will need to bleed the lines now though.
Glad to hear yours weren't so rusted and were able to be re-used.
#15
03-19-2013, 09:52 PM
For the record, I don't drive my Camaro in the winter, but I suspect a previous owner did. There was just too much rot when we did the body/paint for it to have been a "stored inside" car in the winter.
She's all purty again now though.
She's all purty again now though.
#16
03-20-2013, 12:07 AM
I called several places and a guy a few miles away can fit the new struts with my springs for $40 for two. I am only going to take one out at a time because I dont want to leave my car on the jackstands that long, I have a gravel driveway and it rained alot recently and I dont want to risk a catastrophe. I ll just be paitent, get the left side done, bleed the brakes. Then do the right side
#17
03-20-2013, 12:08 AM
The brake lines that I had to remove were both main lines to the ABS box. If you Open one bleeder, say the left front. Will that let all the air out because I havnt used my brake to let the air into the other lines?
#19
03-20-2013, 11:34 AM
you say no need to remove any brake lines? How is that possible with them all being metal. You would bend the crap out of them trying to move the master cylinder off of the studs. So I had to remove moth of them prom the cylinder. I suppose I will have to bleed each caliper now. I need to flush out the old fluid anyway.
I got the driver side out. My mounts look much better than the ones pictured. Not sure why yours are so rusted.
I got the driver side out. My mounts look much better than the ones pictured. Not sure why yours are so rusted.
#20
03-20-2013, 12:24 PM
Yeah I had to take those two off. Once you remover the nuts for the master cylinder, you have to pull it off the studs, ON mine that is atleast two inches back and then up. I tried to do what you did but I could only move mine maybe a half inch before i saw they bending.