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Old 09-17-2007, 12:23 PM   #31971 (permalink)
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I broke the bolt that holds the rear sway bar. Not a big deal I've broken rusted bolts before. I drill it and insert a bolt extractor. Guess what, I broke that to. So now I'm screwed. I'm going to have to take out the sub frame and cut apart the nice boxed mounts and redo them.

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Drill it out and retap it for the next size up? Not ideal, but it would be easier.
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Old 09-17-2007, 12:33 PM   #31972 (permalink)
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was just looking at some screen shots of PGR4 tom and the atom is in there, as well as the delorean lol full list of impressive cars
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Old 09-17-2007, 12:45 PM   #31973 (permalink)
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the atom was in the last pgr too i think
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Old 09-17-2007, 12:46 PM   #31974 (permalink)
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well tom I have a spare set of calipers if need be.

my engine noise is progressively getting worse... sounds like everyones cougar took a dump this weekend.
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I missed the banjo bolt part of your previous post. We don't have those on the Cougars. Just a straight fitting that screws into the caliper.
ah, yeah, shows how much i've messed with the brakes on the cougar, my grand total alots to changing the pads, so yeah, i dont know what to tell you, maybe the line has developed a bit of a crack
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nothing happened to my cougar!
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me neither. made a nice trip up to woodbridge for a wedding. made very good time getting back
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well tom I have a spare set of calipers if need be.

my engine noise is progressively getting worse... sounds like everyones cougar took a dump this weekend.
Nothing happened to mine either.
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Drill it out and retap it for the next size up? Not ideal, but it would be easier.
The problem with that is i broke off the extractor in the old bold and it's made of high strength steel. I tried drilling it out but couldn't. It's fubared!
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ah, yeah, shows how much i've messed with the brakes on the cougar, my grand total alots to changing the pads, so yeah, i dont know what to tell you, maybe the line has developed a bit of a crack
Could be. There was fluid everywhere when I first looked at it, so it is hard to pinpoint the exact location. I was going to clean it up and then try to figure out just where it's coming from sometime later this week.
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