redfishtd

My centrics have close to 100k on them . I'm happy but I realize i might be fortunate. I am prepared to press in better bearings if I have trouble . Now at 204k . But the oem rotors and that small bearing worried me ,my calipers stuck and overheated bearings and boiled some grease out of them . Plus I had oem failure on drivers side wheel bearing at 50k ,then the replacement failed within 5k . Now I do my own work as I had to pay all the labor on redo . Rebuilt calipers fixed my sticking problems .
I would be very hesitant to press a bearing into a used rotor on the oem ,if it lets loose all hell would happen in my way of thinking . I am about to do a total brake job again ,I'm sitting on all the parts.but its hurricane season /heavy rain /mowing season maybe october /nov would be better .
Use your parking brake or it won't work when you need it , It saved me when I made a mistake and came real close to backing into the neighbors house. If you have ever had the brakes go to the floor you can feel the fear and adrenaline hit you so hard its like sticking a million needles all over you .

redfishtd

I never trust chrome sockets for any real torque . I bought a lot of impact sockets and adapters deep well and standard. I like to stay with six point when possible . When you experience a socket exploding its no fun . I already have a piece of broken chisel in my hand that the doctors can't get out or find . Just lucky it wasn't my eyes .

tuflehundon

I broke my lower strut bolt free with a 24" breaker bar. So I used my air tools to get it as tight as I could, and then used the breaker bar again. I thought I was gonna break the breaker bar because it was bending so much. I don't think the average person could have done that without a really long cheater bar.

Then when I did the rotors later, I used my buddies 3/4" torque wrench to check the torque, and I was good.

F150Torqued

I don't know about that - but it not the same sound I made when the black iron 1/2 - 3/4 adapter broke! (or even the same words).