P80 mistake 20-666

Post by **abscate** » 06 Sep 2020, 11:07

When you are doing struts and rotors and your caliper bracket bolts bottom out before the brackets are tight.....

It’s because you mixed up a strut bolt with a caliper bracket bolt

Crappy caliper slide pins too

Second broken Sachs quick strut spring

850oldschool · Post by **850oldschool** » 06 Sep 2020, 11:22

Mmm... fresh anti-seize!

Post by **erikv11** » 06 Sep 2020, 12:07

good lookin' rotor!!

Post by **abscate** » 06 Sep 2020, 13:03

Zimmerman FCP

850oldschool · Post by **850oldschool** » 06 Sep 2020, 13:21

I’ve been a Meyle guy for about 15 years. Just installed my first pair of Zimmies.

Post by **FLXC90** » 06 Sep 2020, 14:40

And this pairs well with P1 mistake 310H55A, forgetting that you didn't put thread locker on the caliper mount bolts of your XC90, then wondering what the noise and grab are in the front end at 70 on the freeway, when the caliper shifts on the rotor because a bolt backed completely out! Which leads to pulling a wheel in the middle of an off-ramp to swap the bolt location until you can limp it to Tractor supply in East Nowhere, but they had the right sized M10 bolt and blue Loctite. Won't forget that again!

850oldschool · Post by **850oldschool** » 06 Sep 2020, 15:07

On a P80 you don’t need no stinkin’ loctite. Rust is your threadlocker.

Post by **scot850** » 06 Sep 2020, 16:08

Neil

callahanoffroad · Post by **callahanoffroad** » 08 Sep 2020, 05:09

850oldschool wrote: ↑06 Sep 2020, 15:07 On a P80 you don’t need no stinkin’ loctite. Rust is your threadlocker.

I still think the best signature locking mechanism that Volvo designed was steel bolts in aluminum housings. Allow to age in the engine heat for 20 years. That's one fine threadlocker.

850oldschool · Post by **850oldschool** » 08 Sep 2020, 07:12

They had to choose the appropriate aluminum alloy to get the bolts to seize like that. Ironically the more expensive higher strength alloys also corrode more.