Time to do my brake swap and a few other things, gunna be super busy tonight. This is what is on the agenda for the front end: Lower ball joints, tie rod ends, rebooted passenger axle, driver side axle will be rebooted, remove steering knuckle assembly, press out hubs, reinstall hubs on the 99 Elantra knuckle, reinstall knuckle assembly, slap on rotor, caliper, pads, adjust alignment, bleed brakes(solo) and drive home. Calipers are rebuilt and painted, rotors have been redrilled. Got some Redline MT 90 for the trans...BEGIN!

 

Hope you get lots of photo's



Cheers Ryan

 

Lucky you... well good luck, ill be waiting for the pics.

 

good Luck!

 

DONE... Almost 4:30 a.m., got started about 7 p.m. so 9 1/2 hours, way longer then I thought it would take. Still waiting on the tranny so sip up the gear oil, then test drive. I will update tomorrow.

 

Hey mate cant wait to see the piccy's, thought id send you a link to my cars in the build...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzh2arm3dQk



Cheers Ryan

 

Well every thing turned out great on my brakes. Car drives straight but my steering wheel is leaning a bit to the left, not to bad for a 3AM "by the eye" alignment. She brakes real strong and bites that big rotor very well. The peddle feels good but could be better but not bad for a one man brake bleed job. Driver axle didnt get rebooted, wasnt worth it cause there is some slop at the inner joint. So whatever fails first, the axle or the boot and a new one will go in. I have yet to rebuild the rear calipers and new brake lines are still needed, both will get done at the same time. I do feel just a bit of power loss do to the weight gain but it is not much and things can be done to lighten the assembly up. Steering doesnt seem to be affected but I need some more seat time to come to a final conclusion on that. Today I threw on the new rear discs and pads, took some pics and stuffed a new radiator into a 98 Galant... Busy busy busy, im gunna need a weekend to rest from this weekend.

 

Dude looks awesome, Love the painted calipers, big differance in braking? will you need to upgrade the master cylinder?



Cheers Ryan

 

Just watched your video, looks like you got a bit of work ahead of you and it should turnout great.

 

yer dude alot of work to go yet haha



Cheers Ryan