Ok so i live in dallas and was driving to OKC (205 miles one way) I pull into a parking garage and roll down my windows to get some air. I hear a funny sound like a rattle, or a clinking sound. I park, check my front tires, kick em, look at the A arms, breaks etc and dont see any thing wrong. I chaulk it up to the concrete seams in the garage making the noise.

2 hours later i hop back into the libby and pull out, still hearing the noise but its no big deal. i leave the garage and i still hear it. Now im a tad worried. im in rush hour traffic, in a city i dont know very well, i step on the breaks and i hear that gut wrenching CLUCK comming from driver side front wheel. I pull over in the middle of the hwy, to check whats going on. Again i cant see anything amiss. As i pull back into traffic i hear another gut wrenching sound, CLUCK ting ting.. and look in the rear view and something is flying out from underneath my jeep...

I drive over to a friends house (only 15 miles away) use his tools and what i found really blew me away...

the top bolt that holds the break calipers was gone! the bottom one fell out when i touched it to see if it was tight, and my whole break caliper fell off the rotor. So i pulled the pax side tire off and checked those bolts, and to my surprise they were loose as well!

so, long story already long, a new bolt will cost $37 from the stealership, and a $5 for a thing of RED loc tight i should be good.

I have never had a break job done, so how or why this happend is beyond my understanding. I know have it im my own personal log book to check the break bolts every 10K.

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05 CRD
3" Rough Country Lift
SAMCO SPORT Hoses
Magnaflow Muffler (12226)
CAT 2 Fuel Filter
Fumoto Drain Valve
EGR replaced at 50K
in service 8/31/04
Sold 7/21/10 125k miles
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Paved Roads, another form of unnecessary government spending...

Have you had the ball joint recall? I think the calipers have to come off to replace them.

I would use the blue loctite for that not the red.

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2005 sport crd-SOLD No regrets

Yeah, you will pull the threads out with the red.

I had a similar situation happen to me with my wife's '99 Jetta. I had
replaced the drivers front wheel bearing. While driving it the next day
I heard similar sounds. It was my own fault, I forgot to tighten the
caliper bracket bolts and one fell out. I drove home using only the parking
brake.

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For the higher heat area like the caliphers I would say use the red Locktite,I use the red Locktite and have had no problems and I've taken off my front caliphers about 20 times,DON"T USE THE GREEN Locktite,it's permenent and requires you to heat up to 600 degrees+ to free.

Do you have any enemys who would like to have you rubbed out?

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Manure green 2005 CRD sport4x4, GDE Hot tune, Cat Gut, OE skids, Draw tight hitch, Duramax lift pump, 160K on multiple varieties of fuel, XM radio, Escort live with Redline, fog light mod, GPS, Icom IC7000 all band radio call sign KC9QPF, Grabber AT2s on Soft 8s, FIA grill blanket.

thats the first thing i thought of! lol

so for the update....

got the bolt from the dealer, this time it was only $11 (they ordered the wrong one of course) so they offered to install it for free. So now thats done.

However i asked how this could happen and they said they see it a lot on the wanglers the cause is rock cralwing. and i do more of that than i do in the mudd. so leason learned play in the rocks, check the break bolts on the post inspec.

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05 CRD
3" Rough Country Lift
SAMCO SPORT Hoses
Magnaflow Muffler (12226)
CAT 2 Fuel Filter
Fumoto Drain Valve
EGR replaced at 50K
in service 8/31/04
Sold 7/21/10 125k miles
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Paved Roads, another form of unnecessary government spending...

Wow, that's scary. I've never done a lot of crawling, but I've road raced quite a bit and never seen caliper bolts come un-torqued.

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'05 Liberty CRD B100, SEGR - SOLD

'01 Beetle TDi B100, EGR delete
'83 Mercedes 240D B100, no EGR

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