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Here's the new brake fluid. If I get out of bed early enough in the afternoon before work I will hopefully get the little bit trimmed off the front calipers that I need for the wheels to fit. 11355.thumb.jpeg.1a246c1b1793ae60d326c38580a0c16a.jpeg

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I did manage to get both calipers shaved down today. I'm having my dad make some shims to go in place of the washers. That way there's not 4 washers that could get lost, if for some reason I have to take it somewhere to get the brakes done.

 

Also I'm open to suggestions on color for calipers that will go with this dark red.

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As for the color recommendation, I would say gloss or flat black. Personally, I'm not a fan of drawing attention to my brake calipers. However, if you could color-match the calipers with the body, that would also look great. 

 

 

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I think I'm going to give burnt orange a try. If I don't like it I'll do the color match the body. Screenshot_20240630_173319_eBay.jpg.b8332891784b3a6a1e7918bbdb7860b3.jpg 

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Be sure to post some pictures after you paint them. Also, that's quite the deer slayer brush guard! It would be great to help move the a$$holes who like to camp out in the left lane. 

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On 7/3/2024 at 7:09 AM, UrbanRage said:

Be sure to post some pictures after you paint them. Also, that's quite the deer slayer brush guard! It would be great to help move the a$$holes who like to camp out in the left lane. 

It does Motivate the more intelligent ones to move out of the left lane. Here's a sample of the 2 colors together. Just got the paint last night. 20240704_142012.thumb.jpg.7eedb9d11e9ef0f1a098422d2761c278.jpg20240704_141933.thumb.jpg.ad5b59dd67cc4f03a4a0ca02df151c36.jpg

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Also I got the spare tire mounted and put back on the truck. I went with a used tire for the time being then I'll get new when i do the rest of them.20240704_135741.thumb.jpg.e236edcc032f33be2b916ea41fbeaa3a.jpg

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Ok, so learned a important lesson today. I've been test fitting everything with the old rotor on the truck. Well today I decided its best to double check that everything was going to work together since I took the wheel off the 2014 that the brakes are going on to check caliper clearance. I drive this truck to work every night so small window for working on this project. Turns out the new rotors set back farther on the hub. So final spacer size for calipers to be centered is 4mm. I have lots of clearance for the 2014 wheels. And about 2 sheets of paper clearance for the 2018's 22's.

 

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22's 

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4 hours ago, Homewrecker007 said:

I have lots of clearance for the 2014 wheels. And about 2 sheets of paper clearance for the 2018's 22's.

Wow!!!

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17 minutes ago, mikeyk101 said:

 

Wow!!!

I'm going to put the 6 piston police tahoe calipers and 16" rotors on my 2018 hopefully that will give me more clearance on the 22's because the wheel tappers out farther away from center. If not I'll be getting new wheels and probably go back to 20's.

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12 hours ago, UrbanRage said:

Good to see you're getting closer to finishing this up. 

Should have it wrapped up by end of next week. Then on to the head gasket issue that has came about. 

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