Brakes and what PO did!

[san rensho]

Wow. I commend you on your mechanical skills, to be able to figure out what the problem was is awsome.The PO and/or his mechanic is an idiot, really goobered/jerry rigged one of the most critical systems of a car, the brakes. I don't know, but you have to get some solid threads in the hub. Don't know how to do it, but it sounds like you have the smarts to figure it out

[Ghostrider 310]

Don't use a heliocoil, timeserts are the far superior product, that said a heliocoil would beat JB weld. The hub is stripped as San said? You should be able to correct that with a timesert, after all the corn cob job they did was holding.

[Okanebm]

My skills are enough to get me into enough trouble to buy another tool or part. Thanks for the praise though. Now for the helicoil/timesert, I figured the same thing. If JB weld held it, then a helicoil will do just fine. They are definitely readily accessible, but timeserts would be next, then the reweld. But as things usually go, I'll be picking up a carrier assembly as soon as the opportunity presents itself. Especially if its for the right price!

[Okanebm]

Update. I've managed, unintentionally, to replicate what the PO did with the JB Weld. I used blue loctite when I torqued all the caliper bolts at all four wheels. Today, On a whim, I backed off the top caliper bolt on the passenger side front and commenced with the torque wrench at 10'lb increments. Lo and Behold... It torqued to 60'lbs with no feeling of about to give or sponginess. So, I feel a little more confident for a quick run to the local cornerstore, but I have the time-serts on order(2weeks on back order!), and a helicoil to be picked up from Oreilly tomorrow.