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It was cheaper for me to buy a kit than get what I needed separately. I got an MBM DBK6472 complete from the hard lines down with non-drilled rotors
It took me two days to install as once again I ran into aftermarket lack of quality control:
The inner bearings would not fit on the spindles, I had to take off about 0.0004" from the spindle;
The outer bearings would not go on over the lip left on the spindle from cutting the keyway;
The rear steering arm attach bolt was too short;
The front steering arm attach bolt was too long and made contact with the anti-sway bar end link;
The cotter pin holes in the spindle were drilled too near the end, I had to double up the keyed washers to get the pin to go through a castlation in the nut;
The cotter pin holes were not counter drilled, a sharp edge stripped the threads on one nut, I dressed out the spindles and used an old nut;
The holes in the splash plates were not of the correct shape, they made contact with the control arms. I used a die grinder to modify the holes;
The worst was the caliper brackets, they are so misshapen I couldn't get the pads between the bracket and the disc. A ball peen hamer, aluminium drift and an 18" cresent wrench massaged the brackets into shape. If the don't work I may have to take the things apart for the umpteen time and put the old brackets back on;
The new dust caps would not fit in the rotors;
The pads are ground in an arc shape, I don't know if that was by design or not;
The hoses are too long.

But there's good news! It quit raining today, I wont get wet going over to the big island to have two root canals done.


Al
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