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- September 4th, 2010, 5:09 pm
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: E-brake (help)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 559
E-brake (help)
I did the brakes fine, now to get the e-brake working. I tighten the bolt but its not tight enough. Is there a guide to installing a new e brake lever cable? Cause I think it has been streched to much.
- August 24th, 2010, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: Rear brake caliper bolts 96 gs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 477
Re: Rear brake caliper bolts 96 gs
How tight do theses caliper bolts need to be?
- August 23rd, 2010, 6:34 pm
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: Rear brake caliper bolts 96 gs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 477
Re: Rear brake caliper bolts 96 gs
i checked to see if i fucked it up and nope its all good. the reason why i want knew caliper bolts is cause there going to stripe very soon( i was given standard sockets and found out later that its a metric system for my car). I guess I could call mazda and find out but figured someone must have do...
- August 22nd, 2010, 11:25 am
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: Rear brake caliper bolts 96 gs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 477
Rear brake caliper bolts 96 gs
So yeah Im still working on my brakes again. I decided to get new bolts for the rear calipers so that i wouldnt strip the bolts. So this is what happened. I went to part-source to get the replacement bolts. They were the wrong ones. I snaped the one bolt cause I thought the people there knew what bo...
- August 1st, 2010, 7:34 pm
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: did the brakes(newbie)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 318
Re: did the brakes(newbie)
Everything went great. Went to home hardware payed 30 cents for the tube. Just and fyi for anyone else who might do the same thing. Make sure your bleeder screw is not sealed. I took the bleeder screw right out and notice there was no hole. I was like how dose this work lol. Took me about 10 min to ...
- August 1st, 2010, 7:30 pm
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: Front Suspension
- Replies: 3
- Views: 282
Re: Front Suspension
thanks again everything was good with getting them from the wreckers. Installing them was a breeze also. I was worried that It was going to be hard as hell to do. Bare with me the mazda is my first car. Almost ready to get it safety.
- July 30th, 2010, 10:01 am
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: did the brakes(newbie)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 318
Re: did the brakes(newbie)
Understand, what am I going to need to do this? Im going to have to bleed ever brakes starting with the back left (passenger side) then going to bake right (driver side) then front left and then finally front right? Do i buy a bleeder kit from Canadian tire? Looking for the easy way of doing this. T...
- July 28th, 2010, 6:17 pm
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: did the brakes(newbie)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 318
Re: did the brakes(newbie)
Yeah thats what i thought was going to be my problem. Ill have to wait for my GF dad to help me out on it. I kind of understand the process that I need to do tho. Props for the quick response tho. When I was pushing on the brake tho the air from the lines was coming out the top of the brake reservoi...
- July 28th, 2010, 5:48 pm
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: did the brakes(newbie)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 318
did the brakes(newbie)
So i decided to do my brakes and had no problems doing the front. However when i decided to do the back ones I pushed on the brakes for some dumb reason wanted to see if the caliper in the back work I guess, and the piston came out with I guess brake fluid. So i was excited to just get going i guess...
- July 20th, 2010, 10:03 pm
- Forum: Suspension/Brakes/Wheels/Tires
- Topic: Front Suspension
- Replies: 3
- Views: 282
Front Suspension
So I recently bought a 96 MX3, it's been my dream car since I was like 16. It wasn't in running condition when I bought it, but I'm slowly rectifying that issue. The other day, I was moving it in the driveway when I noticed a loud clunking sound, anytime that I turned the wheels right or left. Got d...