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Tech Area => General Buick Tech => Topic started by: Shimy87 on July 09 2020, 06:08:25 PM
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Ordered blazer front spindles, and the brackets and C5 front calipers, rotors for the buick today. Should stop much better, easier after but to be honest I'm doing it mostly for the look. Also will be a fun project for my 11 yrs old son and me to tackle. I will post up some before/after pics when done. If anyone has done this any advice is always appreciated :atbeer: :atbeer:
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I am curious to know if it will actually stop any faster the first stop. But, I am always interested in such things so keep us posted and take some pics of the install so us ol' dummies can learn something :D
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Sound like a good project. What is the diameter of the C5 rotors?
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A shade over 12 and 1/2 in I have 17 inch wheels and they're supposed to fit I guess we'll see
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They should fit. I have 12" brakes on the front and they fit with 16" wheels.
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They should fit. I have 12" brakes on the front and they fit with 16" wheels.
Interesting, I wonder what the maximum diameter is to fit under the 15 inchers
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Got parts in. Will start tomorrow, try to post up progress
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Here's all the stuff needed
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Got everything installed today, still need to bleed brakes and give it a whirl. Also needed to get new banjo bolts to connect brake lines. Everything went very smooth. Almost to good so waiting to find the catastrophic error! I plan to post up a new thread with pics and step by step if anyone else wants to do this. Hope it stops as good as it looks, cause I LOVE the look of the new set up!!
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It's nice when things go right! Been awhile for me. Think it was a distributor cap on a '53 Ford.
I bet it looks great!
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Finished look
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Looks great! Fills in the area nicely. I bet braking performance is much improved. :cheers:
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Really works good with those wheels! Looks really nice!!
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Thanks guys :cheers: tight fit, had to get one rebalanced caus e the stick on weights were in the middle and hit the caliper. They are about 1/8 inch thick
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If anyone is interested, I will post up some step by step with some pics on how this was done.
parts needed
spindles from a 98-03 2WD blazer
attached a parts invoice from Rock auto for calipers, pads, rotors, hubs
a bracket for conversion of caliper from Kore3
new banjo bolts to connect brake line to vette caliper
clean up and paint salvage spindles. you can see in the pictures where you need to file a bit for bracket to fit perfectly and get one caliper bolt through cleanly. You can install new hubs now, cut off ABS sensor line but leave sensor attached. Paint caliper to color of your choice and install pads.
Your ready to move to car now
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Get car in the air, but do in such a way that you can get a jack under the lower control arm.
From here this is the first time I have worked with ball joints so if this isnt the "proper" way, sorry, it worked for me.
Remove old caliper from bracket and wire up out of the way so its not hanging by the hose.
Pull cotter pin and back castle nut off to top of stud on tie rod end, give spindle casting a few raps with a hammer and it will drop out, nut will catch it. remove nut and swing out of the way.
Pull pins on ball joints, loosen castle nuts to ends of studs. ( this may not be correct here but worked for me) hit the upper casting on the spindle and after a few shots it will break free, then do the same on bottom. Now jack up the control arm to relieve pressure and remove nuts.
Remove spindle and install new one, use jack to help get nuts started.
Once that is on with new cotter pins installed you can install new rotor and caliper. You will have to use provided spacers to get caliper bracket evenly spaced on rotor
Now connect the brake line so there is no binding or rubbing, and then connect the tie rod end.
Now do it all again on the other side!
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Now both sides are done, bleed the brakes and your done.
On mine with the new spindles my front end alignment was way off so I did a back yard alignment with some string and straight bars to get close enough to break in the brakes. Will need to get a real alignment done.
Also I have 17 inch wheels and the new set up just fit. I actually had to get one wheel re balanced as the stick on weights were in the middle of the wheel and hit the caliper.
A few pics of before and after
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Wow - Thanks for the parts list !
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The original brakes look tiny in comparison.
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Yes, it looks like the originals came from the toy car section
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Those 12.5"s are definitely not going under my 16" GTA wheels