ron.eddy

So I was working on my car far too long today and decided to tackle my rear bearing way too late and lo and behold I screwed up. When I got to the part where it said to remove the bolts holding the caliper on, I actually removed the wrong bolts!! There are 4 guide bolts (I think that's what they are called) that are I believe 7mm and 8mm hex heads. I removed the smaller (7mm) bolts and I noticed they had red threadlocker on them, clearly these were never supposed to be removed... So, am I in trouble? The big ones are still in and the caliper is solid, so I hope I didn't mess anything up but I don't know too much about brake components. I checked the factory manual and it doesn't make mention of these bolts specifically, does anyone know the torque values for them? They are only 7mm allen head bolts so I am assuming its not that much, maybe 20-25 ft-lbs as long as I put red thread locker on them. Thoughts?

Much appreciated!

ron.eddy

I went ahead and torqued the bolts to 20 ft-lbs after putting red loctite on them. I will post back if my caliper falls apart ;-)