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Broken piece on the back side of my brakes, anything important?

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Old Mar 4, 2012 | 04:33 PM
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Car: 1986 Z28 Camaro
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Broken piece on the back side of my brakes, anything important?

I think this is just a dust shield and not overly important. But found this today when inspecting my bushings to see what all I was going to replace and just wanted to check if it's anything to be overly concerned about.



You can also see my nice rusty a-arm lol. Yay for nothern bought cars. At least it's only surface rust though, I'm probably gonna take a wire disc to it when I work on my suspension in the next couple of weeks and clean off some of that rust.
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Old Mar 4, 2012 | 05:35 PM
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Re: Broken piece on the back side of my brakes, anything important?

those parts are always rusty

its the dust shield, no great loss. Not sure how it broke though.
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