All Torque
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Registered: 17th Nov 05
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Ford Focus TDCi
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 Looking amazing now with the lights and black wheels, works very well 
Getting the kit sprayed at TABS was a very wise choice, top work. 
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Jake
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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Bought some V6 brakes because the standard ones are rubbish. Got onto fitting those today along with braided hoses:
The difference in size of calipers, the ones ontop are the old ones:
pictures of what they look like behind the wheel..
Before:
after:
thanks
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Jake
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The brakes are juddering like a wrong'n aswell.
New discs and almost new pads, any ideas?
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
Location: Northampton
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is it when braking or at speed?
maybe warped or wheel weight out!
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Did you clean the hub before putting them on?
It sounds like they're not on straight, if that makes sense?....
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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Oh, and where did the stud/nut bit come from?
Car's looking good
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Jake
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quote:
Originally posted by Graeme
is it when braking or at speed?
maybe warped or wheel weight out!
anything more than a firm foot and it judders like crazy. Cant see them being warped, they were never used before i had them. Wheels were balanced not long ago and were fine before i fitted the brakes
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Jake
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
Did you clean the hub before putting them on?
It sounds like they're not on straight, if that makes sense?....
No i didnt clean the hub, Ill do that tomorrow then, not looking forward to that becuase ive put some strong loctite on the caliper bolts
Stud conversion came from this man
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Stud-conversion-kit-for-Vauxhall-hubs-alloy-wheels_W0QQitemZ4642296295QQihZ002QQcategoryZ10404QQcmdZViewItem
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Jake
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Ive bled the brakes properly tonight - rear left, front right, rear right , front left and there seems to be alot of pedal travel. I heard this was normal with these brakes on the 1.6 master cylinder?
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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Seems to be luck of the draw with pedal travel TBH, there doesn't seem to be a pattern. All the master cylinders are the same part too apparently, unless you have ABS.
Have you got enough brake fluid to bleed them again? IIRC, I did mine a couple of times.
Cheers for the link too
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Jake
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should have, ive read through old posts about V6 brakes and noticed alot of people suffered with the pedal travel shite. My main concern is the juddering so ill get onto that tomorrow
no problem
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Jake
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Had a look at the NS disc and i believe it is warped slightly so ive swapped back to the 256mm which are quite good really. Im going to get my brother to put the disc on a lathe to see how far out it is but im not fucking happy considering they're new
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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did u get them from a shop cos if so just send them back?
get some pics up of it fully, is it coming to us on wednesday!
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Jake
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na bought them off some dude from migweb. It is coming to you but I dont think Tim is that interested when the other geeza mentioned "matey boys corsa who we did the bumpers for"
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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i told the guy to tell you wednesday, its ok, it only the wiper hole isnt it so its not much!
just bring it in then and we will get it done in 2 days no rpobs, if you could strip the bit out at the back that would be a great help! 
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Jake
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its already done, got a grommet in the hole at the moment and ive stripped the padding from behind the numberplate aswell
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Graeme
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gd man, see you on wednesday!
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MikeE
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Registered: 7th Mar 03
Location: Milton Keynes
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looking good mate, bummer about the disk being slightly warped
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Graeme
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up-date yet?
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Jake
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Tomorrow, I have bought a camera so will get some proper pictures of him
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Nic Barnes
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nice car
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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pics?
also ur brake pedal is very spongy, also i think u have a dodgy earth somewhere as once it sounded like the battery was dead and wouldnt start but turned it off and then turned it again and it started no problem, bit weird!
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Jake
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brake pedal has always been like that. Ive been messing about with one of the brake hoses and probably let abit of air into the system. Ive had that happen before. It's not an earth fault, just when you try and start the car straight after pressing the immob. button.
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Jake
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anyway. Graeme smoothed over the wiper hole and resprayed the bottom part of the boot as it was a complete mess:
Couldnt find anywhere to put the torque wrench so taped it to the rear brace
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MikeE
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Registered: 7th Mar 03
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looks like a good job on the boot. torque wrench
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